Sentences with phrase «when transistor radios»

Back when transistor radios were hip, Mariner 4 sent these first close - up views of Mars across 134 million miles using a puny 10 - watt radio transmitter.

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Showing my age but the 1 - 0 away to Juventus back in the Jurassic era (Vaessens in about the 89th minute) when NOONE beat Italian teams on their own ground, still means most to me — I was huddled under the duvet listening on a transistor radio pretending I was asleep!

When Sony introduced its pocket transistor radio, the corporation tried to get the appliance stores to carry its products, too.

When RCA sneered at transistor radios, Sony captured the audio market by first putting out tinny pocket transistors for teenagers, then expanded its base with steady technological improvement.

For example, when Sony introduced its first transistor pocket radios, it sold them to teenagers who had nothing at all, rather than adults who already owned RCA's tabletop radios.

Her judgments resemble those offered by buggy whip makers — «Get a Horse» — when cars first arrived or RCA Victor's evaluation of early pocket transistor radios.

At first I thought it a bit of an obnoxious idea, broadcasting music out into the silent wilderness, but when we're out there and we tune in on small transistor radios, it is pretty cool.