A very different Magnavox Portable CD Player 1990

I've got a few Sony discmans with a radio built in

 

Cool styling on that one

 

it's the same as an apple power cd. i have one, has nice sound. after the philips az6819 my best sounding "portable" cd-player

 

The Power Cd has its own Wikipedia page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerCD

I have spent the last 20 minutes looking for the model above but without success.
Portable CD players were a bit of a rarity back then with both the Gratten and Argos Catalogues only featuring a single Sony one.

 

well, the Apple power-cd shows up regularly on ebay - just the seller’s price- ideas are a bit ridiculous...

 

A friend has just pointed out how similar the second unit looks to one of the Kodak Photo CD Player

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kodak_photocd_hg.jpg

Since one of Philips CDi capability's was to display Photo CDs a link isn't surprising.
I recall a different friend getting his photos transferred to PhotoCD. At the time it seemed miraculous that on a photo of a house you could zoom in enough to see the individual elements on its TV aerial.

 

It is radio+version of Philips AZ6892 in the OP: Philips AZ6897. Beautiful Discman from 1991, but unfortunately they all dead by now: aluminum in RCD2 lasers got bad. I had to buy 4 or 5 so that Kaosuncd.com could revive one for me:


Realistic CD3350, on the other hand (re-badged Citizen CBM 50CP) is almost as pretty, all metal (AZ6892 is plastic with metal bottom) and mostly survived thru the ages

 

You would have had to go there anyway to get your film developed.
The only digital camera available back then was a Kodak costing $20000 which used an external electronics unit bigger than any of those CDs.
https://indianexpress.com/article/t...5-digital-camera-prototype-to-iphone-5727036/

 

20k:these days you have a nice mp10 or better mp9 for much less

 

That is a handsome design. I like brown platter color, or is it a CD? But calling it "just a little larger than the compact discs it plays" is borderline false advertising.

 

I used to have the Philips version of the Magnavox on the first pic
I SO want one again! Please contact me, if anyone has a model number!

 

The Philips version without a radio AZ6892 regularly shows up on Ebay
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/A-rare-P...781943?hash=item4b8e0d46b7:g:wrQAAOSwQ9BgQAVV
As @Jorge said they don't seem to be very reliable though. I have yet to see a working one get listed.

 

thanks for that!
I now know the part number AZ6897, thanks for Jorge.
Its now on my Ebay watch list.

The one I have ended up in the bin unfortunatley due to it eventually failed to read discs.
I wouldnt care now if it worked or not, just in reasonable condition.

 

As a beautiful paperweight this one off eBay should work:


Magnavox AZ 6897 Portable CD Player

you can see from the photo that laser aluminum is corroded, as in all 5-7 Philips RCD2 lasers I bought while hoping for a Miracle. Looks like 'snowflakes' but once you open her up, you see the extent of damage from these aluminum oxides:


I think it was @Mister X who told me the correct term for this nastiness, but I forgot what it is

 

I have added that to my watch list, while I try to figure out the import duty I`ll pay.. as thats a great price!
As for corrosion - I`m used to cleaning that up, as in my introduction, I`m part of the team at the Retro Computer Museum, and I have to repair many old computers that have had battery corrosion (mostly Amigas)