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Originally Posted by Assassin
Not at all. Think back thirty years. Tube TVs, minimal electronics in autos, personal computers just getting started, (my first PC had a 750 meg hard drive, how much memory does your cell phone have today?, radar and sonar were playthings compared to what is used by the military today just in the guidance systems. The original cell phones we had at work were carried in a small overnight bag. It's startling to think where technology will be in another twenty years.
Yes technology was there but in its infancy compared to today.
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Funny.
I seem to remember Akihabara being full of all sorts of interesting shops in the early eighties. Though not as capable as today there was a heady feel of rapid advancement, especially in fields that are mature and taken for granted now. Music reproduction for example was years away from achieving perfectly flat frequency response across a twenty hertz to twenty kilohertz range with a hundred and six decibel dynamic range, but they got closer every year.
Those systems had mechanical parts as well, and some did indeed still use tubes...but tubes are electronic components rather than mechanical ones.