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Originally Posted by radiotvnut
Slightly OT; but, there's something that's now harder to get rid of than used TV's: microwave ovens. About ten years ago; a friend of mine couldn't keep a microwave and he could usually get his price. He's got a couple right now that he's had for several years that he can't get $20 each for.
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You know, though, while it seems like you can hardly even give away an old microwave oven anymore, someday some people may think of early microwave ovens the way we think of early color TVs. I still encounter late-70's microwave ovens (usually Amana Radaranges from the RR-8 through RR-10 series) fairly regularly, but anything much older than that seems to be pretty rare. A few weeks ago, I found a 1971 Sears Kenmore (made by Toshiba, as it turns out, and apparently the first year Sears offered microwave ovens) at a thrift store, and that is by far the earliest microwave oven I can recall ever sighting "in the wild". [It's pretty neat, but I'm still looking for an Amana RR-1 or RR-2 though..!] Granted, microwave ovens didn't become really popular until the late-70s/early-80's, but at least the *cookbooks* that came with many of the earlier models have survived in fair quanities; apparently people tended to keep the cookbook around even after they got rid of the oven itself.