Without revealing your age....

[WePurrsevere]

356. I hadn't thought of that but it makes sense...

since I'm going to guess that they too were powered by tubes similar to TV's and older radios? I remember going into certain stores with my dad and there was a big display and a 'table' where you could plug in and test the tubes used in the old electronics.




I was absolutely fascinated by it, heck all electronics, but my dad, a GE accountant, wasn't into it at all and back then and as a 'girl' I was discouraged by him to pursue that interest.

Now there's something else that was much more common back then, gender roles. Sadly it and equality issues in general are still way to prevalent, but it's much less than it was. Unfortunately those strides forward seem to have some of the more fragile white sexist, racist, etc male egos threatened enough that they're desperately trying to undo much of it but I still have hope that we'll prevail against them and those types will become, if not as 'extinct as the dodo bird', 'as rare as hen's teeth'.