Tag: technology

God Bless eBay!

While cleaning out my basement recently, I found a microcassette player containing a tape labeled as holding an interview that my brother and dad conducted with my grandfather about his service in WWII. After several attempts to resurrect the player in the basement, I decided to roll the dice and bought the little Panasonic handheld number above off eBay for $40. After a few minutes digging through my stash of miscellaneous cables and adapters and a few false starts, I was treated to hearing the voices of these three people whom I miss pretty much all the time.

So to all my fellow hoarders of electronics and the spouses who probably force them to sell things on eBay occasionally, thank you for giving me the opportunity to bring this piece of my family history back to life.

A New Addition

I received this “portable” beauty for my parents as an early birthday present. It’s missing a manual and some suction cups, but it works great for a radio that was discontinued during the Korean War. It’s capable of running off both DC mains service and large dry cell batteries in addition to AC, so I’ll be prepared if this whole Tesla fad finally peters out. And there’s no denying that it just looks great on a shelf.