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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 22 2013 @ 05:57 PM EDT |
I think the black device in the bottom/centre of the picture is a pager.
The device next to the walkman is a polaroid instamatic camera. It was the
height of technology to see your photograph only a minute or two after you took
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- Not Instamatic - Authored by: lnuss on Monday, April 22 2013 @ 06:57 PM EDT
- Land - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 25 2013 @ 03:08 PM EDT
- It is a pager... - Authored by: artp on Monday, April 22 2013 @ 10:54 PM EDT
- It is a pager... - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, April 23 2013 @ 04:26 AM EDT
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| Authored by: nsomos on Monday, April 22 2013 @ 06:09 PM EDT |
Parent asks ...
"what is the object bottom center of the picture,
and the object next to the yellow Walkman? "
The bottom center of the picture appears to me
to be a pager. In some cases these could be
used to get really short text messages.
And commonly just a phone number that one should call.
To the upper left of the walkman is a Polaroid
instant camera. One of the most advanced of these
was the SX70 which was an engineering marvel.
This appears to be a simpler, cheaper and more
recent Polaroid camera, perhaps an Amigo.
These could take still photos that would develop
without need of a darkroom or special equipment
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| Authored by: lnuss on Monday, April 22 2013 @ 06:50 PM EDT |
| It's hard to see, but I think bottom center is a pager. The one next to the
Walkman is a Polaroid camera, an SX-70 I think (hard to
see some details).
I still use a camcorder (a bit more recent than that) and
a watch and a separate computer (both desktop and laptop, and I never did use
the brick (cell phone), pager or PDA except as supplied by the company I was
contracting to for about a year (in 2000) just before I retired.
And I only
recently (a few months ago) got something like the bottom pic, mostly for
traveling convenience (almost never used at home).
I only mention these
details to indicate that not everyone subscribes to the "smart" phone (it's as
dumb as any computer, and isn't a phone) as the current be-all/end-all device.
Sure it does quite a few things, but few of them well (except for halfway
decent, far from great, phone calls).
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- 1993 vs 2013 - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 22 2013 @ 11:48 PM EDT
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| Authored by: JamesK on Monday, April 22 2013 @ 09:51 PM EDT |
It's hard to tell, but judging from the size, it could be a pager. That
function has been replaced and more by texting.
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