Toasters to stereos, machine tools to heating and air conditioning systems, cars to gas pumps a world where it didn't take a personal computer to exchange messages, only a little built-in electronic gadgetry.
"I'm not an informer, but I help explain to the Americans the situation here," he said in a living room with a new Toshiba TV, a stereo, karaoke machine, and 15 vases of plastic flowers.
Photometric Stereo from machine vision camera and light, object on robotic arm (Jaroslav Valach, ITAM).
Eleven wealth items have been asked for in the WHS survey: stereo system, washing machine for clothes, washing machine for dishes, vacuum cleaner, refrigerator, fixed line telephone, mobile/cellular telephone, computer, access to the internet, subscriptions to magazines and/or newspaper, and a security system in home.
He would also like a television, a stereo, an exercise machine, a water dispenser and an electric stove.
"It would be like a stereo or a machine with many more switches in it; it can do more sophisticated types of things," Grant told LiveScience.
Copy-protected CDs sold in Europe a few years ago didn't allow users to play songs on computers and broke some car stereos and Apple machines.
There are few jobs, yet many houses have stereo systems, washing machines and three-piece living room sets.
But game machines, stereo hubs, set-top boxes and TVs all provide some of the same functionality if not all that computers do.
A couple weeks ago, someone broke into his apartment and took his rent money and his video-tape machine and stereo, which weren't even really his.
