Tenpat t1_jdb1zfc wrote
I think people really don't understand how shit technology was in the 60's.
The cost to make e-cigarettes was probably far more than the cost to just make old fashioned cigarettes.
Also there was this: >Inhaling the extract, however, was downright dangerous. Battelle’s monthly report from September 1963 stressed that “reactions were so violent and throat irritation was so strong that smoking could not be carried out under regular conditions.
and this: >This lack of commercial viability certainly had to do with the remaining shortcomings of the device described by Hughes.
Long story short. The technology sucked.
Different_Bake_7 t1_jdrbulf wrote
The first simplest transistors were invented, which is basically a tiny voltage driven electric switch, but they weren't that small, considering today the smallest of integrated circuit chips, can contain millions of transistors ! They were however smaller than vacuum tubes, hence the first portable transistor radio. uniac and ENIAC were the first mainframe IBM computers, that ran on both tubes and solid state components, yet filled up an entire room !.... And about a tenth as powerful as a Commodore 64 !
so yeah..... Technology was stone age back in the 60s.
Different_Bake_7 t1_jdrc9u2 wrote
Jump to the latest cell phone smart phone..... A super computer 🖥️ comparatively speaking !
VegaSpec t1_jdbhc37 wrote
They were probably using like 50% nicotine extract because they hadn't thought to dilute it down to around 1% like we do now.
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