And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
...back in the mid-50's, my first SW radideo was a second-hand Zenith Trans-Oceanic. The original Boom Box. D-cell batteries weighed near as much as the set.
Motorola (Bill Lear) eliminated the static from car radios back in the 1920s. From those proceeds, he went into building the first business jets. Smart guy.
Style in spades!!
ReplyDelete...back in the mid-50's, my first SW radideo was a second-hand Zenith Trans-Oceanic. The original Boom Box. D-cell batteries weighed near as much as the set.
ReplyDelete"portable" like the early "portable" computers: it had a handle, you could kinda-sorta lift it if you were 6-3 and played football.
ReplyDeleteMotorola (Bill Lear) eliminated the static from car radios back in the 1920s. From those proceeds, he went into building the first business jets. Smart guy.
ReplyDeleteMr. Lear was also responsible, or so I've read, for the invention of 8-track tapes and the early machines that played them.
ReplyDeleteIn the late 50's, when I was in junior high and living in Tokyo with my family, my first transistor radio looked something like this.
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