Boombox Archaeology

Discussion in 'Chat Area' started by Mister X, Mar 10, 2018.

  1. Mystic Traveller

    Mystic Traveller Well-Known Member

    Messages:
    1,804
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Location:
    St. Petersburg, Russia - Oxford, GB
    Thanks for sharing! Panasonic pop-up TV - never seen such ones. :p
     
    Mister X likes this.
  2. Mister X

    Mister X Moderator Staff Member

    Messages:
    15,412
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Location:
    Minnesota
    A few of that style have popped up on our Ebay, they are tempting just because they are so neat but I can't justify the space yet.
     
  3. Reli

    Reli Well-Known Member

    Messages:
    1,009
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Location:
    USA
    Do you remember which magazine this is from?
     
  4. Mister X

    Mister X Moderator Staff Member

    Messages:
    15,412
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Location:
    Minnesota
    Mystic Traveller likes this.
  5. Reli

    Reli Well-Known Member

    Messages:
    1,009
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Location:
    USA
    Thank you!! They certainly do a surprisingly thorough job testing products, even boomboxes.
     
  6. Mister X

    Mister X Moderator Staff Member

    Messages:
    15,412
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Location:
    Minnesota
    The search engine isn't the greatest and pages can be missing but there's a lot of great articles.
     
  7. Philip Taylor

    Philip Taylor Active Member

    Messages:
    421
    Trophy Points:
    43
    Location:
    Birkenhead Merseyside
    What magazines they are with so much in them . I have no scientific/ electronic knowledge whatsoever and it amazes me the depth of detail that there is in each article.
     
  8. Mister X

    Mister X Moderator Staff Member

    Messages:
    15,412
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Location:
    Minnesota
    Just check out the links Philip Taylor, there's a ton of different magazines, mostly electronics, that have this information. The magazines seemed to have a lot of audio equipment in the 70's then it switched to computers in the 80s.
     
  9. Mystic Traveller

    Mystic Traveller Well-Known Member

    Messages:
    1,804
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Location:
    St. Petersburg, Russia - Oxford, GB
    So good that've saved all this probably now forever, till the end of days at least. :)
     
    Mister X likes this.
  10. Mister X

    Mister X Moderator Staff Member

    Messages:
    15,412
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Location:
    Minnesota
    I used to think that as well Mystic Traveller but a ton of great first generation websites have disappeared. I've found some of my old links and the sites are gone, some are still on the Wayback Machine but a lot of the photos are gone. Back then it was easy to put up a free site on places like Geocities, Tripod, Excite, Angelfire, etc, but they're all gone along with a ton of cool content.
     
    Mystic Traveller likes this.
  11. Reli

    Reli Well-Known Member

    Messages:
    1,009
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Location:
    USA
  12. Longman

    Longman Well-Known Member S2G Supporter

    Messages:
    3,768
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Location:
    Bournemouth UK
    I agree with Mister X. the latest site to disappear without trace was the PocketCalculatorShow which Stereo2Go was an offshoot from. Another site that I visited in the past but seems to have disappeared was all about Grundig Radios and Cassette Recorders, which is a shame as that is my latest purchase (awaiting cleaning and repair). A few months ago, while looking for that, I found an archive of a Geocities site web page saying that the Geocities site was closing and giving a link to their new site --- which was completely dead.

    Photos are a particular problem with older sites. Back when Ebay charged for more than a couple of photos I used AOL pictures. That closed and the account was transferred to another operator who didn't allow web photo sharing. Then I started using Photobucket. Recently they started charging a significant fee for that service. By then Ebay had upped the number of photos to 12 so I wasn't using Photobucket anyway.

    In the cool stuff for sale thread I am now usually putting a copy of at least one photo, as I know the listing and all the associated photos will disappear in about a year. Google seems to be pretty good at retaining pictures though. Quite often a search will show a picture of an item thast has disappeared from Ebay.
     
    Mystic Traveller and Mister X like this.
  13. Mister X

    Mister X Moderator Staff Member

    Messages:
    15,412
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Location:
    Minnesota
    We need to get the PCShow back up, I'd pay for it if I had the contact info, that one site brought thousands of people together.
     
  14. Mister X

    Mister X Moderator Staff Member

    Messages:
    15,412
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Location:
    Minnesota
    Some Random 70's ads, Centrex by Pioneer RK-112, Desert Sun November 1977

    Desert Sun November 1977.jpg

    Panasonic RQ-4465, Coronado Eagle & Journal, September 1975

    Coronado Eagle, September 1975.jpg
     
    Mystic Traveller likes this.
  15. Mister X

    Mister X Moderator Staff Member

    Messages:
    15,412
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Location:
    Minnesota
    JVC PC-V2 from December 1987

    JVC PC-V2 1987 EA.jpg
     
    Mystic Traveller likes this.
  16. Mister X

    Mister X Moderator Staff Member

    Messages:
    15,412
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Location:
    Minnesota
    Philips D8958, now this is interesting! From December 1987

    Philips D8958 1987 EA.jpg
     
    Mystic Traveller likes this.
  17. Mister X

    Mister X Moderator Staff Member

    Messages:
    15,412
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Location:
    Minnesota
    National Panasonic RF-8000 from 1976

    Panasonic RF-8000 1.jpg
    Panasonic RF-8000 2.jpg
     
    Mystic Traveller likes this.
  18. Mister X

    Mister X Moderator Staff Member

    Messages:
    15,412
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Location:
    Minnesota
    Mystic Traveller likes this.
  19. Mystic Traveller

    Mystic Traveller Well-Known Member

    Messages:
    1,804
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Location:
    St. Petersburg, Russia - Oxford, GB
    An LCD remote for a portable that's something! Never seen such thing,
    only for VCRs.
     
  20. Mister X

    Mister X Moderator Staff Member

    Messages:
    15,412
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Location:
    Minnesota
    Remote controls were pretty big in the late 80's, especially multi-unit single controllers. I just read a small article on Steve Wozniak's CORE Version. His latest and greatest was to do a single controller but I'm not sure if it was ever manufactured. I think Marantz had a version that was semi-successful but I'm going by memory.
     

Share This Page