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Today's auction find is a General Electric light-up analog clock, advertising TV and radio
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From a 1947 Life magazine article comes these vintage photographs of beautiful coin-operated machines. Features coffee, popcorn and book-dispensing
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A quick and easy how-to guide for scanning View-Master reels. Includes step-by-step instructions and helpful screen shots to get you on your
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A pair of beautiful pictures of the RCA TK-40/41, the first color television camera made
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Some of our most cherished games are now owned by computers, so if you were thinking about mastering them, don't
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If you can lift this ancient VCR, you don’t need to
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I come not to praise Apple founder Steve Jobs, but to tell his haters to STFU for a few
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Long before robots became a staple of pop culture, Elektro the Westinghouse Robot made his debut at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Here's his
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Some guy plopped an iPhone inside his guitar -- I know, crazy right? -- and he was able to capture the oscillation* of the guitar