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When you got to a new town, I seem to recall pulling a booklet out of the glove compartment, finding the right page, finding the right frequency for the station
by cachvico 5y ago
When you got to a new town, I seem to recall pulling a booklet out of the glove compartment, finding the right page, finding the right frequency for the station you're after, and tuning manually to that frequency.
"Punch a button" was only an option once you'd already saved that preset - no difference to the later digital version.
- endgame 5y agoMid-late 90s radios could scan along the spectrum and stop when they found something.
- walrus01 5y agoThis is how my 2007 Japanese car functions and it works just fine. No extra unnecessary features added.
- jeffbee 5y agoOff by many years. Ford was shipping "electronic" and "premium" radio head units in the 1970s that had electronic tuners with scan and seek functions.
- Johnny555 5y agoEven some 70's era stereos had that capability -- my grandparents had a mid 1970's Cadillac with an analog tuner, but it also had a button you could press and you could watch the tuning needle scan until it found a a station. I was looking for a link to one, and it turns out that even some 1950's radios had a "wonderbar" signal seeker: https://classiccarradiorestoration.com/wonderbar/ https://classiccarradiorestoration.com/wonderbar/