Tech Wishlist Items
from Years Ago
Apple II
Year: 1977
Cost: $1298 w/ 4k RAM
Cost: $2638 w/ 48k RAM
The Apple II is the most popular
computer ever. The newest feature
to the apple II at its time was a color
display. Also it came with its own
keyboard. It was also available with
only circuit-board. The Apple II had
eight expansion slots too. It went out
of production in 1993, it lasted 15
years.
Otto V. Gross
http://oldcomputers.net/appleii.html
Commodore 64
Year: 1982
Cost: $595
This computer is listed in the
Guinness Book of World Records as
the highest selling computer model
of all time. Sales estimates range
between 10 and 17 million units. It
gets its name from its 64kB of RAM.
The $595 price tag equates to
roughly $1500 in today’s dollars.
-Mr. Zacharias
http://www.lemon64.com/museum/boxes/c64_old_original_box.jpg
Apple Macintosh
Year: 1984
Cost: $2,495
The Apple Macintosh was one of the
first popular home computers. It
featured color graphics. It also had
4K of RAM. It was introduced during
a super bowl ad.
-Anthony
Apple Powerbook Laptop
Year: 1991
Cost: $2299
Originally released in 1991, the PowerBook
was named laptop of the year 2 times. This
line of computers was produced for 15
years. It was discontinued to make the first
MacBook in 2006.
The first model, the Powerbook 100, is
pictured here. It had a nine inch
monochrome screen and 2MB of RAM. It
included a floppy disc drive and a 20MB or
40MB hard drive for storage.
Shaun
Dell Precision 386SX
Year: 1992
Cost: $1300
Dell sold custom assembled
computers directly to buyers for
seven years prior to 1992. By 1992
Fortune magazine included Dell
Computer Corporation in its list of
the world’s largest companies.
The Precision 386SX came with MS
DOS 6 and Windows 3.0. The one
shown here had two floppy drives
and an 85mb hard drive.
-Mr. Zacharias
http://www.mrmartinweb.com/images/computer/dell386sx.jpg
Sony VAIO
Notebook Computer (model 505G)
Year: 1998
Cost: $2,699
This notebook computer featured a
10 inch wide keyboard and a 10.4
inch screen. It had 32MB of RAM
and included a 2.1GB hard drive.
It was considered a marvel at the
time because of its thin profile.
-Mr. Zacharias
Image from: http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2012/04/the-90-best-gadgets-of-the-90s
Apple iMac G3
Year: 1998
Cost: $1199
The Apple iMac G3 is a line
of personal computers
manufactured by Apple.
They were known for having
bright colored plastics. They
had 4 or 6 GB hard drives.
Garrett
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMac_G3
Apple iPad
Year: 2010
Cost: $499
The Apple Ipad is worth the money.
It’s big touch screen is better to
watch videos, use apps, and read up
on things. The Ipad is also better for
listening to music, because of the
big line of speakers.
Addy
http://macficionado.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/ipad.png
JVC RC-M90 Boombox
Year: 1981
Cost: $????
This boombox is actually worth it.
Even though it looks really old its
pretty loud and you can walk around
with it on your shoulder because it is
also light.
This boombox was very popular. It
still sells for hundreds of dollars on
eBay. In 2012, an eBay auction
netted nearly $4,500 for a working
model.
http://www.stereo80s.com/images/gallery/jvcvictor/jvc___victor_rc-m90c_1_big.jpg
Addy
Sony CDP-101 CD Player
Year: 1982
Cost: $730
Sony released the first CD player for
the public, the Sony CDP-101.
Sadly, later on in it’s life, it failed in
the European, American, and
Japanese markets.
-Claude
Sony Walkman
Year: 1980
Cost: $200
The SONY Walkman was a portable
music player. It came with
headphones and used magnetic
tape.
Otto V. Gross
Sony ‘Discman’
(Sony D-50 portable CD player)
Year: 1984
Cost: $350
Sony’s first portable CD player. It
was the first of its kind on the market
in 1984.
-Ozzy Howe
Diamond Rio MP3 Player
Year: 1998
Cost: $200
The Diamond Rio MP3 player was a
very good buy. It is 3.5 inches by 2.5
inches and 0.625 inches thick.
It’s a good way to listen to music
while walking around your
neighborhood, town, city, or just at
home too.
http://images.pcworld.com//news/graphics/123950Gadget18_diamond_rio_b.jpg
Addy
Apple iPod
Year: 2001
Cost: $399
You could get this ipod with 5 GB,
10 GB, or 20 GB. Users could fit
their whole music library in their
pockets.
Garrett
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Apple_Inc.
Cordless Home Phone
(Several Brands)
Year: 1987
Cost: $170
Early cordless phones had poor
sound quality. Like walkie talkies,
people could eavesdrop on
conversations if they also had a
cordless handset.
-Mr. Zacharias
Image from: http://clickamericana.com/media/advertisements/the-latest-and-greatest-telephones-1987
AT & T Digital Answering Machine
Year: 1991
Cost: $139
Answering machines were around
long before this one. This model did
not rely magnetic tape to record the
incoming and outgoing messages.
This made it easier to save the
messages users wanted to keep
while deleting the unwanted ones.
-Mr. Zacharias
Image from: http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2012/04/the-90-best-gadgets-of-the-90s
Nokia Mobira Cityman 1320
Brick Phone
Year: 1987
Cost: $2990
“Brick mobile phones from the 80s are rapidly
becoming a cult retro item. They were very
expensive when new and at first used only by top
executives and City traders. By the end of the
decade, they were an invaluable business tool for
travelling salesmen, builders and delivery drivers
as well, but were out of reach for personal use for
most people. The hand held mobile, as opposed to
a heavy transportable essentially a handset
attached to a 12v car battery, was a status symbol
for Yuppies in the 80s and a source of irritation on
trains and in restaurants for everyone else. Only
the 2G digital phones of the 90s made today's
mass mobile phone ownership possible.”
http://www.retrowow.co.uk/retro_collectibles/80s/mobile_phone.html
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Alexis Arnold
Motorola Bag Phone
Year: 1992
Cost: $
Mr. Zack gave one of these beauties
to his fiance for Christmas! They
were durable and had a 3 watt
power source! They were usually put
in people’s cars.
Carina
Nokia 2146
Year: 1994
Cost: $150.00
This phone was made in 1994
Taylor Poglitsch
http://mobiles.users.netlink.co.uk/n2146.gif
Motorola StarTAC Flip Phone
Year: 1996
Cost: $1,000
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_StarTAC
Taylor Poglitsch
Motorola Razr V3 Flip Phone
Year: 2004
Cost: $600
http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/ghosts-of-christmas-past-the-original-motorola-razr/
Released in 2004, the Motorola Razr
V3 wasn’t intended to be a mass
market phone ( at the time).
Motorola failed at that, because of
the summer of 2006, Motorola sold
over 50 million handsets! The Razr
was a flip phone, so that meant it
didn’t have a touch screen. You
could still send and receive
messages; you could also take
pictures on it too.
Kayla Oswalt
Apple iPhone
Year: 2007
Cost: $599
http://www.statista.com/topics/870/iphone/
In January of 2007, the first version
of the Apple iPhone was released.
The first generation phones were big
in the global smartphone market,
probably because of the introduction
to the first touchscreen interface. It
was so big that, in 2011, Apple sold
more than 72 million phones around
the world, and because of that,
Apple made approximately 47 billion
U.S. dollars in that year alone!
Kayla Oswalt
Motorola Droid
Year: 2009
Cost: $199 with a 2 yr contract
$500 - $600 without a Verizon contract
It was an internet and
multimedia enabled
smartphone designed by
Motorola which ran Google’s
android operating system.
Garrett
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Droid
Atari Pong - Home console
Year: 1976
Cost: $79
Prior to the home console, the
arcade video game was released in
November of 1972.
The game is a tennis sports game
featuring simple two-dimensional
graphics.
-Ozzy Howe & Mr. Zacharias
http://www.thecraftylife.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/AtariPong.jpg
Atari 2600
Home Video Game Console
Year: 1977
Cost: $199
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The Atari was known for Pong,
Breakout, Space Wars, and Outlaw.
The game Adventure is the first
game ever to have an Easter Egg,
the Developer’s name. It’s not very
intense, but it was the absolute first
easter egg ever.
Lucais Rhodes
NES (Nintendo Entertainment System)
Year: 1985
Cost: $199 OR $249.99
Released in 1985, this 8-bit console
actually saved the gaming industry
from “The Great Gaming Crash of
‘83”. This console laid the plans for
future consoles, such as the SNES,
as well as the modern-day gaming
controller, with a D-Pad instead of a
joystick. Let’s all thank Nintendo for
this electronic savior.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NES_nn.jpg
https://www.flickr.com/photos/59716912@N05/5901940739/
Zane
Sega Genesis
Home Video Game Console
Year: 1989
Cost: $189.99
“In 1987, Sega announced a North American
release date for the system (under the name of
Sega Genesis) of January 9, 1989,[13] making it
the second console to feature a 16-bit CPU (the
first one being the Mattel Intellivision) and the first
to feature single-instruction 32-bit arithmetic. Sega
was not able to meet the initial release date and U.
S. sales began on August 14, 1989 in New York
City and Los Angeles[14] with a suggested retail
price of US$200 at launch. The Genesis was
released in the rest of North America on
September 15 of the same year with the price
reduced slightly to $190.”
http://segahub.org/index.php?topic=1581.0
Alexis Arnold
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Sony Playstation
Year: 1994
Cost: $300
The original Playstation was
released in 1994, and by 2003, had
sold 120,000,000 consoles
worldwide. Production of the
Playstation and original Playstation
games ended on March 31st, 2006,
after the release of the Playstation 3.
Its younger brother. the PS2, is the
best selling console of all time.
Production of the PS2 ended on
January 14th, 2013.
Shaun
Microsoft XBOX
Year: 2001
Cost: $399
The Microsoft Xbox, was released
on November 15, 2001. It was a big
release; but by 2005 the Xbox 360
took over and now days you can get
this xbox for just $27.
http://s3.india.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/microsoft-xbox.
Megann
Nintendo Wii
Year: 2006
Cost:$249.99
“Nintendo fans finally have a price
and release date for the company's
new generation console, Wii. The
Big N has officially announced that
the system will hit retail in North and
South America for $249.99 on
November 19”.
Alexis Arnold
www.digitaltrends.com/.../nintendo-wii-u-to-retail-for-no-less-than-300/
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/videogames/detail-page/vg.consoles.01.lg.jpg
Mattel Football
Handheld Electronic Game
Year: 1977
Cost: $40
Mattel Football is a handheld video
game on football. You control little
red dots on the screen. They are the
players.
megann and Mr.Zach
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41S43M5FHYL.jpg
Tomy Blip
Handheld Electronic Game
Year: 1977
Cost: Unknown
Released in 1977, the Tomy Blip
was a Pong knock-off. It had
worldwide success being released in
25 countries. On Ebay. the Tomy
Blip is sold for $20 or less.
Shaun
Nintendo Gameboy
Year: 1990
Cost: $90
The Gameboy was a small-handheld
game device that could play a good
160 x 144 resolution. After the
release of the Gameboy Color, the
Gameboy Advance made the
Nintendo market explode.
-Claude
Color: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Game_Boy_Color.png
Advance: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GameBoyAdvancetransparent.png
Original: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Boy
Tamagotchi Digital Pet
Year: 1996
Cost: $17.99
Originating in Japan, the
Tamagotchi Digital Pet provide
hours of play! With features like
feeding your pixelated pet, cuddling,
and picking up its poop!
Carina
Nintendo DS
Year: 2004
Cost: $199.95 +
This handheld gaming console was
the predecessor to the classic Game
Boy and Game Boy Advance. It had
the ability to play games for not only
the Nintendo DS (Double Screen),
but the Game Boy Advance as well.
It has four later models, two of which
have XL models (DS Lite, DSi, DSi
XL, 3DS, 3DS XL, 2DS).
Zane
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autostereoscopy
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nintendo_dsi.png
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_DS
Sony PSP
(Playstation Portable) Handheld Game Console
Year: 2005
Cost: $249
A Sony PSP was a handheld
console made by Sony. It was
unveiled on March 25, 2005. It has a
large viewing screen.
- Ozzy Howe
Sony Trinitron CRT TV
Year: 1992
Cost: Several Hundred Dollars
The Trinitron TV was developed
many years prior to 1992. However,
around the early 90’s these CRT
sets grew bigger while still boasting
vibrant color images.
The larger 25” and 27” Trinitrons
were extremely heavy. Lifting one
definitely required at least two
people.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c4/Sony_FD_Triniton_KV-BZ213N50.jpg
Lucais Rhodes & Mr. Zacharias
Philips Flat TV
Year: 1998
Cost: $15,000
This 42 inch TV was a beast by
today’s standards. It was much
thinner than the large CRT (tube)
TVs of the late 1990s era. Sports
fans and movie buffs couldn’t wait to
get their hands on a TV like this…
but most Americans would need to
wait for several years before the
price became reasonable for flat
screen TVs.
-Mr. Zacharias
Image from: http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2012/04/the-90-best-gadgets-of-the-90s
Apple Quicktake Digital Camera
Year: 1994
Cost: $749
The QuickTake 100 digital camera
could capture images with a
resolution of 640x480. But it stored
only eight of them at that resolution.
If the resolution was reduced to
320x240 users could store 16
images. Even though this camera
had the Apple logo, it was not
designed by Apple. It was made by
Kodak, the inventors of the digital
camera.
-Mr. Zacharias
http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2014/06/25/happy-20th-birthday-apple-quicktake-100-the-first-consumer-digital-camera
Kodak DC25 Digital Camera
Year: 1996
Cost: Unknown
This 0.2 megapixel camera was one of
the first cameras to support a
removable storage card. In this case,
the card was a Compact Flash card. It
was also one of the first cameras to
include a small color lcd screen to
review the pictures.
The JPEG picture file standard was still
young and under development so this
camera used K25 file format, a
proprietary format developed by Kodak.
Image from: https://farm1.staticflickr.com/51/169758857_493af2a35a.jpg
-Mr. Zacharias
Apple Quicktake 200
Year: 1997
Cost: $600
This Apple camera was built by
FujiFilm and branded with the Apple
logo.
Apple discontinued the QuickTake line
of cameras in 1997, shortly after Steve
Jobs returned to the company.
Several years later, people would begin
taking pictures once again with Apple
products - the iPod and iPhone.
Image from: http://assets3.thrillist.com/v1/image/962112/size/tl-horizontal_main_2x
-Mr. Zacharias
Sony Mavica FD5 Floppy Disc Camera
Year: 1997
Cost: $500
This camera was built for
convenience. It stored its pictures on
a removable floppy disc. This was
helpful because nearly every
computer had floppy drives at the
time. Users could simply remove the
disc from camera and inserted it into
the computer’s floppy disc drive.
-Mr. Zacharias
Image from: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Sony_Mavica_FD5_4040.jpg/800px-Sony_Mavica_FD5_4040.jpg