20 Innovative Tech Products From The 1970s That FAILED Completely
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@TechXDocs · 1 month ago · pinned
The Apple III had a 100% hardware failure rate. The official fix? Pick it up and drop it. That story + 29 more failures and the patterns connecting them all 👉📘 Dead on Arrival: <a href="https://dead-on-arrival.netlify.app/">https://dead-on-arrival.netlify.app/</a>
@matthewlane518 · 2 months ago
I used to love my dad's CB radio! It was fun to talk to the truckers on long road trips and stuff
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@i-ccc-channel · 2 months ago
Betamax was not a flop either. It is very closely related to Betacam, a professional version that started out using the same cartridges, and became the industry standard for professional video. Even today you can still find Betacam machines in some post houses and TV stations, to play their huge libraries of Betcam tapes...
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@Dj-Jon-E-C · 1 month ago
In UK CB Radio slowly coming back you also with new radios being built.
@johneysupergd7796 · 2 months ago
What was once impractical back then became practical now these days once the technology got redefined😀🤣
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@r.g.c.3897 · 2 months ago (edited)
Were there ever CB Radio Licenses? While it's possible some rogue states tried to regulate them I think it's doubtful. CB radios were limited to 4 Watts which limited their range to 10 miles on a good day. You could attach a Linear booster and get 100 miles or more but if caught you would be facing steep fines, jail time, or both. I personally owned a couple hundred 8-Track tapes and never heard one switch tracks during a song, that happened with home recorded tapes but not manufactured ones.
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@FieldParticle · 7 days ago
CB use declined also due to the solar cycle at the end of the 1970s,
@charleskitzmiller8847 · 2 months ago
those tvs were expensive!! One six hundred dollars??
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@Jae_brett · 1 month ago
How the FUCK were cb radios a failure?!? They couldn't have possibly been more popular for so many years. Songs and movies made about cb radio ffs...
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@PianoMan-hx3ev · 12 days ago
The music does not fit the video.
@i-ccc-channel · 2 months ago
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUZdDSxa2_A&t=499">08:19</a> U-matic was most certainly not a flop! It was the professional video standard for many years. Still around into the 90's, and only replaced by Betacam. Silly claim that it was a flop
@ianmeredith7969 · 2 months ago
That is bollox. VR was available in the 90s, I was part of that industry. Frankly it's rearrival in 2016 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/was">#was</a> crap.
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