Then, and Now

The Douglas DC-3 first passenger plane and flight was in 1935. Early U.S. airlines like United, American, TWA and Eastern ordered over 400 DC-3. Capacity 28 passengers.
The Airbus A380 seat 525 passengers in 3-class layout.




Motorola DynaTAC 8000X is the first commercial handheld mobile phone in 1983 boasting 60 minutes talk time on a 10-hour charge. The Nokia E63 today has a talk time of 4 hours.
In Hongkong it was known as tai kor tai, probably referring to the triad bosses who will lose face if seen without one.


The first car manufacturers in the world were French:
Panhard & Levassor (1889) and Peugeot (1891) with output of 24 hp.
The new Peugeot 207 1.6l has 175 hp.


The first practical use of television was in Germany in 1929.
Then screen size was 12" standard. Today 42" screen is the rage.



IBM introduced in 1986 a personal computer with 256k RAM, Floppy Disk Drive and DOS operating system.


In the 1970s the 8 track car stereo system was the rage. No decent car owners will be seen without one.

Today's car stereo boast of iPod compatibilty beside radio/CD/MP3.
In the 1980s self-respecting adults would be out of place without a pager, also called a beeper. When beeped, the holder would head to a nearest public phone to return the call. That was convenience!
Today primary school students would be out of place without a 3G phone equipped with camera.


The legendary Walkman was such a hit then, equivalent to the iPod, playing on cassett with probably twenty songs.

It was not so long ago during the internet explosion in 1997 the first digital camera to hit the market was the Kodak DC210 boasting of 1.3 mega pixel and cost a princely sum of $1,300.