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I think the only consumer electronics we had in our family before 1991 was a small black and white TV that went through a dozen repairs and occasionally require
by allarm 2y ago
I think the only consumer electronics we had in our family before 1991 was a small black and white TV that went through a dozen repairs and occasionally required a hard kick to function properly.
- cess11 2y agoOK, I don't doubt that, when I grew up in Sweden I had friends that didn't come into contact with personal computers until the mid-nineties and had like phone on a copper cable and a CRT-style television with two or three channels and not much else. Pocket calculators were treated with suspicion in schools. My parents were relatively into new technology so they got me a used, cheap C64 pretty early, though. However, the Soviet-sphere is well known for their Z80-machines, some of which had a bit of innovation in them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ZX_Spectrum_clones https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ZX_Spectrum_clones It surely wasn't equally distributed but the USSR was quite deep into engineering and technology, the 'scientific socialism' thing, so they made their own multimeters and pocket calculators and radio equipment and whatnot.