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Season 1. Episode 4. Christmas 1977 and Mattel Electronics Football.
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It’s the BoltBucket Christmas special! Waaaay before the iPod there was another must-have hand-held electronic Christmas gift for kids. Strap in to Ted’s make-believe DeLorean and rocket back to 1977. Star Wars debuts. Nasa launches Voyager I & II. The Yankees win the Series during the Son of Sam murder spree all while the city rolled out its I Luv New York add campaign, and three unknown upstarts in a California garage incorporate a small biz and name it Apple Computer. But for Christmas that year one must-have, blockbuster technology gift begins what we now call the hand-held device revolution; what many tech historians now see as the first iPod, per the concept of mobile electronic entertainment. Gather ‘round the yule log now as Ted tells the story of… Well listen on, you holiday reveling hooligans!
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