CES 2016

The consumer electronics landscape was a very different place 30 years ago. There was no Internet. The marriage of audio and video had yet to be consummated. Brick-size cellphones were a curiosity/status symbol.

Audio and video were the undisputed kings of CES 1986, a time when around 20 percent of U.S. households owned a VCR but less than 10 percent had a personal computer and only 2 percent had a CD player (a figure that would double to 5 percent by the end of the year).

What do you remember about CES 1986? And if you're too young to remember—or weren't born yet!—what intrigues you most about that era?