Originally Posted by
onehundred80
In the late fifties I worked at a company that made transistor radios, TVs etc, by some weird coincidence the apprentices were all walking around with radios made from purloined company parts because they could not afford the real thing. There were lots of capacitors, resistors etc laying around, the transistors were all locked up but they still managed to find themselves liberated.
And by the late sixties one could have a pocket sized Transistor radio for the small price of filling the gas tank with a minimum 8 gallons. They gave them away for $0.38 per gallon gasoline.
My dad had a Dino Supreme one he treasured for years.