On Sun 16 Jan 2005 01:47:30p, Steve Calvin tittered and giggled, and
giggled and tittered, and finally blurted out...

> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>> 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
>
> hm, didn't know that. I thought that the Amana was the first one out for
> the general consumer.
>

Amana was the first to offer a countertop model. The tappan operated on
220 VAC and was always installed as a built-in. I had a client in the
early 1960s who had a custom Tappan kitchen that included the microwave.
She had a couple of friends who also had them.

Wayne