Originally the radio was an expensive extra and not part of the standard equipment in most 1960’s cars.

… which was easy, because each button had exactly one function, and there where only 6 buttons on the dashboard.

BBC World service is still broadcasting on AM :)

You know that most modern devices have a volume control…?

He probably bought it in the 70s when he had no kids and his salary was higher, compared to the 80s and 90s with inflation, but the same salary.

The CMOS battery has maybe 100mA and lasts 5 years. A laptop battery has at least 400x the capacity, it would not drain in a few days.

Wow, he has to declare bankruptcy now!

That won’t solve the software side. My previous phone was still working, but then Google fucked up the software. The first because it required some new ssl standard for all connections that the phone didn’t support. The other one because google added a whole lot of local Infos, pictures and features to the map that could not be disabled, therefore rendering my Navi to a unresponsive, slow and battery draining app I could no longer use. And then there where some apps that would not run because my os was to old.