Technological Innovations of the 1960s

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[thedivineenergy]

I miss the 1960's Tv, Liquor cabinet, Stereo, Record Player. 😃 I kept the family tv for years and put it in my first apartment. It quit working so we put another tv on top of it. Then years later a vcr under the 2nd tv. I later named it the tower of technology. 🤭

[paulne]

A friend of my Father had a color TV. On some Sundays, we’d go there and watch lassie and Walt Disney.

[lionelpatterson]

I was given a cassette player that would also record and I captured the sound of a four-barrel carburetor in my dads Chevelle as we passed cars it was great.

[anthonythomas]

Cassettes may have been invented in the 60s but I don't recall them having commercial impact until the 70s. We were still playing 45s in the 60s. Everyone I knew had an 8 track in the car before cassettes.

[rayfridley]

Ommitted was the coming of the push-button telephone, (replacing the rotary dial) premiered in November, 1963.

[kckgirl]

Born in 1960 and wish I could go back to those times. Much SAFER! 🌹

[PhilipAiello-si]

We had to travel all the way out to Long Island to see the color TV my relatives bought. I actually remember watching "Robison Curusoue on Mars."

[philosophera]

Popular TV brands with color were Magnavox and RCA

[jbmbryant]

Actually, in the late 60's, 4 track, then 8 track tapes were used in cars, not cassette tapes.

[jons.]

The revelation of color TV and entertainment was a perfect marriage when programs like The Ed Sullivan Show started featuring musical acts and other things in super psychedelic colored sets!! Wonderful!

[mikekwayne]

I think you overlooked the changes caused by FM Radio. It was the 60's when it was first going popular in cars, and enough stations to make it worth while having such a device. It had the problem of fading signal under bridges, and more than a few miles from the station, it was STEREO sound as opposed to AM monophonic.

[Paul_Wetor]

IBM's System/360 was revolutionary in that it offered a series of computers that shared the same instruction set. Previous computers had unique machine instructions. A company could then upgrade to a more powerful model without having to recompile the programs. It remains the basis of today's IBM mainframes, though many changes have been made over the years. Banks and other large companies still use IBM mainframes because: 1) they're fast (they push data, not graphics), and 2) so much code exists that it would be a huge investment of time and money to rewrite it.

[tonycollazorappo]

Awesome year, I was born in 1961. It was a great time to grow up in, I'd go back if I could.

[johnjettfothergill]

Color TV. Ya, Dad put off that expense as long as he could. "They have not perfected it yet." worked until 1972!

[dorismikolajczyk]

Blast from the past!!! Same as other commentators- fun!

[mikmik]

The mind of a child. I was so supprized when our new TV came, with a larger screen. The picture was the same just larger. I had expected to see more. <*> A teenager asked how was it living in the world before there was colour? The olden days when teverthing was sades of gray?

[ElectriceyebySam]

Yup we watched a B/W Panasonic for years that sat on top of our 60s something cabinet style TV after it broke mid 70s😅…tough to watch sports on that rig.

[danielulz]

Woah! Car cassette players were not a thing until the 1980's! 8 track stereo tape players were in 60's and 70's cars. My 77 and 79 Town Cars had 8 tracks, but my 83 Town Car and 84 Continental had cassettes.

[thistlemoon]

I can remember my parents getting us up to see the moon landing on tv.

[alanbailey]

I remember the earliest color TV's. Flesh tones looked Trumpish, orange.