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  Dansette Recorder

  Dansette was a battery operated cassette recorder that looked like a flattened brick, with the usual 5 control buttons and a speaker in the top half. It had a little microphone that you could plug in. ...

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  dial a disc

  Dial-a-disc was a telephone service provided the the Post Office beginning in the 60's. You simply dialed the number 16 on your telephone and a current 'pop' tune would be played down the line. This tune would be different each day ...

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  Digital Watches

  Digital watches first became available in the 1970's but were so expensive and rare that few people owned one. It wasn't until the 80's that the technology became widely available and it was common place to see people wearing digital ...

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  Discman portable CD players

  The world's first portable CD player came from Sony at the end of 1985 and retailed for a whopping $800 in the US. But by this time, there were finnaly CDs available from non-classical, non-jazz modern artists like U2 and ...

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  Disco Lights

  Disco lighting - ring counters, sound-to-light, strobes - every DJ built their own, and they were a product of the arrival of the transistor technology that also brought us transistor radios. It made all the difference to our disco dancing ...

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  Dixons

  As a lover of technology and photographic kit, Dixons in the late 70s and early 80s was techno heaven. Decent cameras and lenses, Prinz binoculars, Chinon stuff. Heady stuff.My favourite purchase was a Prinztronic TV computer game. TV tennis (Pong?) ...