I live radio. I hate television. I have a number of vintage 1930's units that i adore. Your transistor radio is of Asian linage (Hong Kong?). They're...
Actually for me it was a book about computers that drew me to them. I had been using the TI-59 programmable calculator and I ran across this book back in 1978 -
It blew me away how you could do so much more, especially manipulating text like MID$, RIGHT$, etc. on a computer compared to the programmable calcs.