I have managed tp pick up quite cheaply on Ebay two portable micro cassette players one a SONY M-1PDand the other an OLYMPUS SW-77. I also managed to pick up from a Russian Seller prerecorded albums of 1 The Beatles White album 2 Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here and Dark Side of the Moon 3 Abbas Greatest Hits 4 Vivaldi The Four Seasons 5 Demo Tape White Rabbit /Someone to Love and Hotel California These revery professional recorded and reproduce the album Artwork and tracks on the inlays managed to get them to play on the Olympus but it is a bit" iffy" and you need to be patient to get it going but it plays quite well when it works with little wow or flutter .The sony however does not play so well and runs very slowly so I suppose it needs a new belt and service as it plays and FF /rev pretty well when there is no tape running These two micro cassette players did not, for once ,cost a lot £46 and P&p for the Sony and £25 and P&P for the Olympus I recall. Since I have acquired these , I have been looking for a Micro-cassette player /recorder. I have only found one so far in the States a Fisher which was hideously expensive at more than £600 and it is on E-bay now and the link is below .However , to my Surprise I found a Sanyo very like the Fisher and the Micro-cassette Player is removable as well and it was sold as in working condition for £79 plus £5.50 postage. Here is that link below. Does anyone have any further info about this machine and is it in any way related to the Fisher machine as they seem very similar? Sanyo M-X66 Stereo Radio Micro Cassette Recorder BoomBox in Original Box Boombox Fisher PH-M88 Stereo radio Microcassette Recorder
Sanyo and Fisher were the same company so it wouldn't be surprising to find similar boxes from both Companies.
can you please give me the info for the Russian mini cassette seller? I would like to get Vivaldi's mini cassette
Boodokhan, he's probably talking about this guy... https://www.ebay.ca/itm/ABBA-Greate...959075?hash=item3d74493223:g:FOAAAOSwIDJbLS12 Great pick-ups Phillip Taylor, the microcassette players are fairly rare and usually get big money. Here's one that always flies under the radar and it's a two-for-one, the General Electric Road Show Boombox and Kangaroo Microcassette Player. The TV might turn off collectors but the tape player is nice as I have one to play with. https://www.ebay.com/itm/1982-GENER...438236?hash=item33f3e8959c:g:~bUAAOSwEfBbantQ
Hi Boodokhan Mister X is correct and that is the seller from whom I bought the tapes. He was good to deal with and also combined postage for me and speaks English. He has The Vivaldi Four Seasons for sale now .The postage for one tape is a bit pricey
MISTER X Thanks for the link for the General Electric.It is a little big for me but a nice thing .Is the Kangaroo just the name that General Electric gave to the player and can you buy it separately?
I call them kangaroos because there's a removable personal cassette player that fits in a full size boombox. There's not many of the micro cassette versions of them but the GE is one, Fisher also has one maybe two of them and I have the Toshiba I posted in the micro cassette thread that really looks like it came out of a box but I can't find any information on the unit.
