PocketCalculatorShow.com is an online vintage electronics blog
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Vintage Electronics Have Soul - The Pocket Calculator Show Website
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Pocket Calculator Show is our effort to provide and share memories and information on popular consumer electronics of the '70s and '80s, the so-called "Golden Age" of electronics. For about 1 1/2 years, that effort was through a radio show called "Pocket Calculator" on shortwave station WBCQ. Every Saturday at 11pm ET, we would pontifcate and ramble about classic electronic goodies like radios, video games, digital watches and various consumer electronics. We enjoyed presenting such unusual subject matter to a great audience across the east coast of Canada, the United States and the Carribean. Sadly, the unstable nature of the station's shortwave signal at this time of the evening led to our demise. We had a good run until the Voice of America began transmitting a signal at this time on a nearby frequency. This turned our show to static and left us questioning the nature of the medium for our subject matter. We decided to end the show and focus our efforts on the website. It was fun while it lasted and we hold no hard feelings for WBCQ. To Al and our faithful listeners: you were terrific, thanks for the experience! By the way, don't let our experience dissuade you from the magic of shortwave radio. If you've had a hankering to do our own radio show, contact WBCQ!
Boy, we had a hard time coming up with a title. This one was just thrown out in a brainstorming session one evening--we were ambivalent at first, but it was the least worst of the ideas we had. Later, we realized Pocket Calculator seemed to encapsulate the significance of the topic rather well--these oftentimes overlooked, but historically revolutionary devices signified a new age for technology. Then there's the nerdy albeit funny stereotype that comes to mind when one thinks of a pocket calculator.
We have all we need, thanks. Are you kidding? Of course we want your email! There are so many electronic products from the 70s and 80s that whose day has come and gone, or whose day never even came. Your hosts grew up in New England, and while they've made every efforts to travel to different corners of the country or obtain information from manufacturers, collectors, and so on, we're all discovering items we missed during what we call the golden age of electronics. By all means, drop us a line.
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