I don't know what my problem is lately but more and more of these blog posts are ending up being strolls down memory lane; and this one is no exception.
The above picture is of the first piece of personal electronics that I ever owned. It's a Mura Hi Stepper AM/FM radio. To put some perspective on it, this unit is about 3 times the size of an iPhone and all it did was play the radio. This became available around the same time as the Sony Walkman did in the early 80's but if my memory serves I didn't have very much money to spend. And, anyway, all I needed was the radio.
I remember seeing it in a newspaper ad convincing my father to take me to pick it up at some weekend warehouse sale south of the Twin Cities. Hearing Stevie Nicks "Edge of Seventeen" for the first time on the Mura Hi Stepper convinced me it was a good buy.
Later on when I got my first job washing dishes at Bridgeman's restaurant I purchase the below speaker unit which had an area in the center where you put your radio and plugged it into the speakers, kind of like a poor man's boom box.
I remember seeing it in a newspaper ad convincing my father to take me to pick it up at some weekend warehouse sale south of the Twin Cities. Hearing Stevie Nicks "Edge of Seventeen" for the first time on the Mura Hi Stepper convinced me it was a good buy.
Later on when I got my first job washing dishes at Bridgeman's restaurant I purchase the below speaker unit which had an area in the center where you put your radio and plugged it into the speakers, kind of like a poor man's boom box.
I know that these days our smartphones and tablet computers can do so much more in a lot smaller packages but it's still nice to think back to simpler times when all we need was a device that did one thing.
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