> He challenged his engineers to design an inexpensive radio that could be installed in most vehicles In the late 1970's, as a teen, I was given an old Motorol

> He challenged his engineers to design an inexpensive radio that could be installed in most vehicles In the late 1970's, as a teen, I was given an old Motorola car radio. It was all metal, greenish blue, no plastic. It had vacuum tubes! And it actually worked. It was very well built. Like a tank. I opened it up for inspection. When powered on, it made a very quiet buzzing sound. There was a "vibrator" (yes that is what it was called), used with a transformer to get the high voltages for the tubes. With just a short lead connected to the antenna connector, it could receive nearby radio stations. It's speaker had the impedance matching transformer typical of vacuum tube equipment I had seen in TVs and radios. As a teen I didn't realize how short life is and that radio might have been a good thing to hang on to.