Dimitri wrote:
> "Dave Smith" > wrote in message
> ...
>>
>> I like the 19668 ad for a microwave oven. Only $545. Back then I was making
>> $1 per hour at my part time job. If I had been working full time for the
>> same rate of pay it would take a month and a half to buy it. The last
>> microwave I bought cost me three hours pay.
>
> That was a very very new technology - I saw my first one at the opening year at
> Disneyland it was part of the "home of the Future" exhibit IIRC they made a
> roast chicken in the time it took to complete the show. At that time is was
> called a RADAR Range.
>
> Dimitri
>

I remember seeing my first microwave at an air show at our local airport
(in MA) in the mid 50's. They "baked" a cupcake in...3 minutes or so.
I didn't see another one for about 20 years.

RADAR Range was an Amana trademark, wasn't it?

gloria p