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Wayne Boatwright
 
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On Sun 16 Jan 2005 12:39:58p, Steve Calvin tittered and giggled, and
giggled and tittered, and finally blurted out...

> sf wrote:
>> On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 16:33:41 GMT, Dog3 > wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I was not allowed to use the stove yet so it was all microwaved.

>>
>> <snip>
>>
>>>this was like 40 years ago. How time flies.

>>
>>
>> Boy, your family was rich and on the cutting edge - I didn't
>> buy my first microwave until 1975 and paid something like
>> $500 or $600 for it (1000 watts). That was way too much $
>> in today's terms, but it was worth it at the time.
>>
>> sf

>
> Agreed. The first microwave (radarrange actually) hit the consumer
> market in '67 so you guys must have had one of the first ones!
>


Tappan actually introduced one a few years earlier, but it only found its
way into a small number of custom home kitchens. At that time they were
installed like a wall oven.

Wayne