In this gallery, you’ll get lost among a treasure trove of scanned images: old-school ads, quirky announcements, dusty bulletins, and vintage magazines that smell like nostalgia.
Enjoy your trip down memory lane!
Texas Instruments (TI) shook up the digital watch world in 1976 with a real market bombshell — the first LED watch priced under $20! And they didn’t stop there: the following year, they jumped on the Star Wars craze, releasing themed LED watches for just $16.95 — a treat for fans and a blow to the competition. Prices kept falling, and before long, it was a bloodbath: several high-end digital watchmakers were forced to shut down. Ironically, TI itself got crushed by its own success — with profit margins shrinking fast, they bowed out of the watch game by 1980. By then, those once-shiny digital watches had become cheap, everyday gadgets for the masses.
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