Post #1011746

Nonono that is outright false, even 6 of the big D batteries, would last only a few hours in even a small ghetto blaster of the late 70’s. Radio yes, tape no. The tapes took massive amounts of power even in a small player for the time. But apart from that all other uses of batteries were a pain, like in flashlights that weren’t even very good by today’s standards, or bicycle lights where batteries were a joke so we had to use dynamos. Your memory is simply wrong. IDK if they have declined 99%, but for sure batteries today are both 10 times better and only a tenth the price compared to the 70’s. Although they are just fake numbers that seem right, it actually fits with the 99% Althoug 3 decades only brings us back to the mid 90’s, I think that at least in some cases it is true. Batteries are way cheaper and better, whether it’s 80% or 99% IDK, but for sure iẗ́s more than 80%.