Happy Birthday to the Walkman!

Can you believe it? This most amazing gadget, well at least to those of us that were pre-teens and teens back then, came out 30 years ago!!

So it got me thinking, while I type on my laptop with its wireless connection and my MAC laptop is next to me 'ripping' custom ringtones as my iPhones recharges off the USB connection about all the gadgets we had back then and how 'most awesome' they were in the words of either Bill or Ted and now how they pale in comparison.

I don't have time right now, but tonight after I take the girls to see the Phils' and Braves and before I get on a plane for 5 days of much needed relaxation and self examination I am going to explore the gadgets that made up my youth and maybe even look at their counterparts today.

I know I won't get them all so if you want to add to my list feel free:

The aforementioned SONY Walkman
8 tracks
two turntables and vinyl
real cable boxes and their long cords connected to the TV
the original 'mobile phone'
How about wall mounted phones and the curly cords that always got knotted and twisted and you had to let them dangle to unknot?
The VCR and Betamax
Word Processors
The Apple IIe or Commodore 64
Nintendo, Intellivision or Atari gaming systems