Transistor Radios

I was 12 years old when my family moved to Tachikawa, Japan. (My dad was in the US Air Force.) The transistor radio was only two years old. I remember wandering around our Japanese house with a transistor radio one hand and the ear plug in my ear listening to Armed Forces Radio. That was the only English speaking radio station. Now we have gigabytes of music in our MP3 players so listening to a single radio station with an electronic device may seem not to be much but it was the beginning of portable music. Revolutionary.

  thanks to Neatorama