And the analog signal was being monitered by scanners sold by the same company. A creepy relative of mine spent his spare time listening in to personal calls.
Radioshack in Canada was really good back in the 80's/ early 90's. It's gone down hill ever since it became The Stupid i mean The Source. The people who work there have no knowledge when your're talking about anything electronic, for example a Capacitor or Resistor. I only go in there now when I have too.
Nah. We're just old. You always hit up the last place you found your speaker wire or solder or pack of resistors or phono plug for your guitar amp - and for a few generations - that place was Radio Shack. Then it became cheap RC cars and last-century's handheld games with blinking LEDs and tinny electronic sound effects. Not sure that's our fault.
I know this is an old post, but I went into a radio shack once and asked for a PS/2 Keyboard. I assumed that the employee would know that I meant a keyboard for a computer. He took me over to the video game accessories and said that he was fairly sure that they only had PS2 controllers. I just said thanks and searched the store myself until I found one.
If this family exists, they would have spent nearly $5,000 on just buying these phones then the price of the subscription and installation. $5k in the 80s like $10-15k in today's world. That's quite a lot of money.
I had a Radio Shack car phone just like that back in 1988, in my brand new Pontiac Fiero. I only paid about $400 for it, they had deep price cuts by the time I bought mine. Service was still $60 a month for one hour, and 1 minute and 1 second was the same as 2 minutes. I had the little pigtail antenna in the back window. I thought I really had something. Only wealthy people (and those that went without everything else to pay for one) had car phones back then. Now I wish those damn "smart phones" would just go away. I still use a 1990s flip phone.
I forgot about how they rounded up the minutes! We had to keep track just to make sure we didn't pay for 2 minutes if we were only on for 61 seconds. We made sure we ran it up as close to 2 minutes as possible.
The price of the phone wasn't the biggest cost- it was a dollar a min in 1988 in Seattle. I got my first phone in 1998 with 30 min for $19.99/mo, extra min 35 cents ea.
+Ben Wolfram In Mongolia we first saw these modern wanders of cells during 1995 and I got my first phone in 2000 the flip phone was around $150 and the monthly plan was 10 or 20 dollars.
I had this exact phone on my car in 1994. I forget what the prices were. But my plan was for 20 minutes a month. After that, it's was crazy expensive to make calls. LOL!
Equivalent to 5 grand today & 7 grand for the cell ......... AND THEY'RE DRIVING A FORD TAURUS!!??!!...... WE'RE RICH TODAY WE GOT BOTH IN ONE FOR A FRACTION
Unfortunately, cell phones killed RadioShack because eventually all the carriers started having their own stores and RadioShack continued to devote a majority of their floor space to Cell phones and they weren’t selling much. From what I heard. They still had decent sales in hobby electronic parts kits and related stuff but towards the end, they didn’t have much of what the hobbyist including me, needed, so they went to Amazon and Element 14 and other places and RadioShack slowly died. I still went there to the day it closed, and they tried a few things toward the end, but not enough..
I got my first cell phone in 1999 one of those motorolas. I remember my bill being around 200 a month and I barely used the thing. Didn't have one after that until 2010. Went with a blackberry and then a couple years later this galaxy s4. Don't think I could live without one now though.
What I thought was interesting, is that the little girl isn't strait-jacketed to ten seat belts and a booster seat, AND she's sitting in the front seat! How times have changed. Isn't the rule currently that you have to be at least 18 to sit up front these days??? Also, I cannot BELIEVE the cost. I realize the technology is new, but WOWZERS! Just like the PC. That equipment can't be GIVEN away, yet it cost THOUSANDS of dollars! That 640k hard drive and 5" monochrome screen, all for $4999! What a bargain!
Plus the fact that all the family members are white. THAT is something you just do not see in commercials today. Back then it was legal to use your portable phone in the car. It was a selling point.
The prices of the cell phones were probably so high because that was before the carriers partnered with the phone manufacturers and offered service contracts. My father would buy used cars frequently, and he would often acquire a mobile phone with a car he would buy, and from what he told me back then, there were no minutes included with the service. He even had phones over the years that were on "the old system" called IMTS, or "improved mobile telephone service," which was a different network that wasn't part of the "cellular" service. I remember him having an IMTS phone as far back as 1979. Sometimes you would try to dial out on it and it would beep if there were no available lines on the network.
Jesus i remember these commercials...its crazy how back then you had to wealthy or a drug dealer to have a cell phone and now everyone excluding homeless ppl have a cell phone
Zack's father has a cell phone as well. They had an episode where they both called each other. The show bills the Bayside highschool as serving a rich district. Many cast members had things unheard of then. Zack has a cell phone, Lisa has her father's credit card to shop clothing and jewelry, and Screech has multiple computers that he seems to dismantle to reprogram for something else (he had a robot pet). Computer hardware in the early to mid 90s were quite expensive and for the normal family a luxury item. The fact that Lisa's father give her a credit card suggest they are able to pay it off considering up to the later 2000s, having credit card debt was a huge no-no that could cost you a job. Kelly, Jessie, and Slater all seem to be somewhat normal. Kelly has multiple siblings and once her father lost his job and Kelly gave her waitress check. Jessie doesn't really have a lot of background story but it is suggested she lives near Zack as they both climb into each other's window. Then Slater seem to be an Army brat but his father is a very high rank which suggest he lives a very comfortable life comparing to other Army brats.
It looks like they’re having a picnic at the end, but they’re actually homeless after paying for those phones
😂🤣
not only was the phone expensive but it was
.84 cents a minute when I had that phone.
@@beachbumflorida8203 good lord!!!
And the analog signal was being monitered by scanners sold by the same company. A creepy relative of mine spent his spare time listening in to personal calls.
@@AnnieBrackett88How’s Haddonfield these days?
I'm sure she was pretty upset after her parents told her that they spent her college money on those phones.
Ha-ha!! So true!
Never mind the cost of the phone, that call to dad probably cost $85!
That car phone is $3,121.15 in 2018 dollars and the cellphone is $5,566.31 in 2018 dollars. Yeah that's real affordable...
Radioshack in Canada was really good back in the 80's/ early 90's. It's gone down hill ever since it became The Stupid i mean The Source. The people who work there have no knowledge when your're talking about anything electronic, for example a Capacitor or Resistor. I only go in there now when I have too.
I went in looking for a SW radio antenna; they looked at me like I was from another planet.
+Romaro Vinciguerra You people are idiots for going in there in today's modern age looking for components.
Get with the times.
Nah. We're just old. You always hit up the last place you found your speaker wire or solder or pack of resistors or phono plug for your guitar amp - and for a few generations - that place was Radio Shack. Then it became cheap RC cars and last-century's handheld games with blinking LEDs and tinny electronic sound effects. Not sure that's our fault.
I know this is an old post, but I went into a radio shack once and asked for a PS/2 Keyboard. I assumed that the employee would know that I meant a keyboard for a computer. He took me over to the video game accessories and said that he was fairly sure that they only had PS2 controllers. I just said thanks and searched the store myself until I found one.
That kid's call to daddy probably cost $38 in airtime.
If this family exists, they would have spent nearly $5,000 on just buying these phones then the price of the subscription and installation. $5k in the 80s like $10-15k in today's world. That's quite a lot of money.
That's some incredible price 😳
And 28 years later the store is closing for good.
The beginning of all evil in cell phones.
Lol I remember those holycrap, everyone wanting one the what a few years later we are all on those Motorola flip phones! lol 😂
even their price is a lot of money for then
@0:18 Paul E. Dangerously called. He wants his phone back...
Was probably reserved for the stock brokers. Not so much Construction worker Daddy.
Holyshit thats too much
$1,399 for a car phone and $2,495 for a cellphone? Those prices were outrageous back then.
missL iPhone X is about 1300 lol
There was no good reason for the price difference to be THAT much.
$1399
NO CAMERA
NO VIDEO CAMERA
NO INTERNET
NO MOVIE APP
NO PHOTO ALBUM
NO NOTEPAD
NO ALARM CLOCK
NO WEATHER FORECASTS
SO........ ITS JUST A PHONE????
@@lovefaith1714 yep.
Times that by 3 to account for inflation
My salary as a teacher in 1987 was almost $900 a month. Almost 3 months pay not counting the cost per minute to use.
I had a Radio Shack car phone just like that back in 1988, in my brand new Pontiac Fiero. I only paid about $400 for it, they had deep price cuts by the time I bought mine. Service was still $60 a month for one hour, and 1 minute and 1 second was the same as 2 minutes. I had the little pigtail antenna in the back window. I thought I really had something. Only wealthy people (and those that went without everything else to pay for one) had car phones back then. Now I wish those damn "smart phones" would just go away. I still use a 1990s flip phone.
I forgot about how they rounded up the minutes! We had to keep track just to make sure we didn't pay for 2 minutes if we were only on for 61 seconds. We made sure we ran it up as close to 2 minutes as possible.
$2,495.00? SHIT!
With inflation it was actually more like $4800.
$2495.00 for a cell phone? I saw a flip phone at best buy mobile for $10!
Look at the size of the thing and $1300?? In 1987 that was a lot of money. Hell today that would be a lot of money.
Cell phones that family owns cost more then the Taurus.
When controlled for inflation that was around 6600 of todays dollars for something that functioned about 1/1,000,000th as good as a 100$ phone today
Stop putting the $ on the wrong side.
AFFORDABLE MY ASS!!!!!!!
Only the rich had them back then. Trust me I remember!!!
The price of the phone wasn't the biggest cost- it was a dollar a min in 1988 in Seattle. I got my first phone in 1998 with 30 min for $19.99/mo, extra min 35 cents ea.
+Ben Wolfram In Mongolia we first saw these modern wanders of cells during 1995 and I got my first phone in 2000 the flip phone was around $150 and the monthly plan was 10 or 20 dollars.
That phone call cost $5000
Affordable huh. Oh right, you mean $13.99 and $24.95. Cool
0:18 Accounting for 2022 inflation that would be 6,419.71
I had this exact phone on my car in 1994. I forget what the prices were. But my plan was for 20 minutes a month. After that, it's was crazy expensive to make calls. LOL!
Equivalent to 5 grand today & 7 grand for the cell ......... AND THEY'RE DRIVING A FORD TAURUS!!??!!...... WE'RE RICH TODAY WE GOT BOTH IN ONE FOR A FRACTION
Dads working nights and weekends to be able to throw down nearly 4k for a car phone and mobile phone in 1987.
Unfortunately, cell phones killed RadioShack because eventually all the carriers started having their own stores and RadioShack continued to devote a majority of their floor space to Cell phones and they weren’t selling much. From what I heard. They still had decent sales in hobby electronic parts kits and related stuff but towards the end, they didn’t have much of what the hobbyist including me, needed, so they went to Amazon and Element 14 and other places and RadioShack slowly died. I still went there to the day it closed, and they tried a few things toward the end, but not enough..
No one who could afford that phone would be driving that.
I got my first cell phone in 1999 one of those motorolas. I remember my bill being around 200 a month and I barely used the thing. Didn't have one after that until 2010. Went with a blackberry and then a couple years later this galaxy s4. Don't think I could live without one now though.
What I thought was interesting, is that the little girl isn't strait-jacketed to ten seat belts and a booster seat, AND she's sitting in the front seat! How times have changed. Isn't the rule currently that you have to be at least 18 to sit up front these days???
Also, I cannot BELIEVE the cost. I realize the technology is new, but WOWZERS! Just like the PC. That equipment can't be GIVEN away, yet it cost THOUSANDS of dollars! That 640k hard drive and 5" monochrome screen, all for $4999! What a bargain!
Plus the fact that all the family members are white. THAT is something you just do not see in commercials today.
Back then it was legal to use your portable phone in the car. It was a selling point.
Times they are a changing
Shut up.
Chase Gallagher I say what I like thanks
Julius Fawcett Well stop that shit.
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***** It's my life and I do what I like with it at the perfect time for me
The prices of the cell phones were probably so high because that was before the carriers partnered with the phone manufacturers and offered service contracts. My father would buy used cars frequently, and he would often acquire a mobile phone with a car he would buy, and from what he told me back then, there were no minutes included with the service. He even had phones over the years that were on "the old system" called IMTS, or "improved mobile telephone service," which was a different network that wasn't part of the "cellular" service. I remember him having an IMTS phone as far back as 1979. Sometimes you would try to dial out on it and it would beep if there were no available lines on the network.
Cell phones have been around since at least the 1960s, but were only for the rich for decades.
What a deal!!
$2500 in 1987 has to be something like $7,500 today. Not affordable to me. I'll just use a payphone.
0:11 accounting for the 2022 inflation that would be 3,599.67
I remember the novelty of using a phone in a car for the first time
And people complain about $1000 iphones. Those prices!
1,399?? iphone do alot more and basically the same price LOL
If mom had one a' those, she wouldn't be driving that fugly station wagon. 😆
$1399
NO CAMERA
NO VIDEO CAMERA
NO INTERNET
NO MOVIE APP
NO PHOTO ALBUM
NO NOTEPAD
NO ALARM CLOCK
NO WEATHER FORECASTS
SO........ ITS JUST A PHONE????
My cellphone that I have today cost $0 and service is about a $1 a month....
Jesus i remember these commercials...its crazy how back then you had to wealthy or a drug dealer to have a cell phone and now everyone excluding homeless ppl have a cell phone
i can't believe radio shack was the bomb now it's gone...forever...
:'(
I remember my grandpa had that. And there was a radio shack a couple blocks from my house.
What total rubbish, this will never catch on.
Boy, expensive prices for a car phone and a cell phone.
RIP RadioShack
Goodbye and good riddance to bad rubbish.
Yowza! Good thing Zack Morris [apparently] had rich parents! ;)
Zack's father has a cell phone as well. They had an episode where they both called each other. The show bills the Bayside highschool as serving a rich district. Many cast members had things unheard of then. Zack has a cell phone, Lisa has her father's credit card to shop clothing and jewelry, and Screech has multiple computers that he seems to dismantle to reprogram for something else (he had a robot pet). Computer hardware in the early to mid 90s were quite expensive and for the normal family a luxury item. The fact that Lisa's father give her a credit card suggest they are able to pay it off considering up to the later 2000s, having credit card debt was a huge no-no that could cost you a job. Kelly, Jessie, and Slater all seem to be somewhat normal. Kelly has multiple siblings and once her father lost his job and Kelly gave her waitress check. Jessie doesn't really have a lot of background story but it is suggested she lives near Zack as they both climb into each other's window. Then Slater seem to be an Army brat but his father is a very high rank which suggest he lives a very comfortable life comparing to other Army brats.
@@Dan-di9jd I know all this! 🤣
Jesus that's one expensive block of cellular data
Who exactly are you talking to?
The prices are wild, especially for the time. But what novelty it was to use a phone outside of a landline.
When your phone cost 1/3 of what your car did..
I had a car phone very similar to that one. They were still so scarce back then.
I'm getting the iPhone X it's way cheaper than the ones Radio Shack are offering here
Hahahhahahahahaha at the price. Those would cost 25 dollars now-a-days. Rest In Peace Radio Shack (rADIOShack)
Holy cow I can't believe a phone for ur car costed so much.
it's just like cellphone prices today
That was the last time Radio shack did anything cool.
I remember this one!!! Haven't thought of it in years.
I want that phone
I have three of the portable ones 😂
2 G's !?!?! fuuuuuuk
Only 14 dollars......not bad
uh, did you watch the video?
Not $13.99, it was $1399.00.