Don't forget Ham Radios. I knew someone in college (this is the late 70s) who had a Ham Radio and talked to people very long distances away. He also used Morse code over the radio. I think his call letters were something like Whiskey Alpha Bravo.
When I was small we had a short wave radio that picked up Ham operators from all over the world. Ham operators (they tend to own generators, I guess) have been instrumental in emergency relief efforts after hurricanes and earthquakes and the like have disrupted normal communication methods.
According to about.com: "The first digital cameras for the consumer-level market that worked with a home computer via a serial cable were the Apple QuickTake 100 camera (February 17 , 1994), the Kodak DC40 camera (March 28, 1995), the Casio QV-11 (with LCD monitor, late 1995), and Sony's Cyber-Shot Digital Still Camera (1996)." Kodak had so-called professional digital cameras available earlier (1991)
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