Totally Sweet! Luv old architecture! Luv History! Thanx for the info on antiques definitions, Mitchel! Btw, I owe Beth a lot for gettin me interested in history... Thanx Beth!
Also, found out why dad bought the radio. Has a lot to do with how computers started. Learned today that the tubes acted like transistors that could amplify currents. Computers needed lots of transistors (vacume tubes) so the first ones were gigantic and couldnt do very much. Now they use photography to etch thousands of transistors on a quarter inch square wafer-like thing so computers can be Real small.
Okay, this is an "Old object" that my dad bought years ago. It was made in the 1920's but doesn't have a keypad so I dont know how it ever worked. But they used these before they had cells:
