Hello, I am joining for one main purpose: Can anyone identify the component boombox sitting on top of the cabinet in this slide photo (attached) from circa 1981-1984 (probably around 1983)? I'd hypothetically pay a lot to know!!! I have been searching high and low for .. years. and.. I'm lucky the thing even shows up in one of the slides my mom took of my dad, if only partially. The closest thing is if the RX-C100 and maybe the RX-c39 had a baby, with C38 style transport levers and the more boxy rectangular EQ faders. There is a thin rectangular button between the cassette and EQ with 3 rectangular lights above it that light up red, which I think are for selecting cassette type. The tape counter is above those, I believe. It had rectangular release buttons for the speakers on top of the unit. It could have been purchased at the BX/PX in Germany, but I'm not sure, it might have been bought in the DFW area or in Maryland around the same time as the Apple IIe pictured there as well. Please help.
Yep you nailed it. How do I mail you the check?? General Electric... I knew I had to be wrong about Panasonic, but GE completely slipped past me whenever I went back and looked at possible brands. Crazy. Now the harder part... sourcing one still in good 9/10 condition.... only a couple bad looking ones on e-bay currently -- this lucky guy: If anybody knows of one for sale and in great condition, I'd pay potentially up to 2k to get my hands on such a unit. Feel free to keep me informed... AI shopping bot had no luck at this time either.
Nice to read the boombox guru's quickly identified it! Best of luck in finding another one in great condition! Why do you want to get one again? Yeah... why did your dad throw it away? Cause' he thought it was obsolete... thought i-pods or i-phones are all anyone ever needs for audio. That's the main #1 reason everyone throws away fully functional high end audio gear isn't it? "It's obsolete".
Great computer, mine was similar but we couldn't afford the printer which was big money back then, along with the perforated paper, the printer cartridges, the 80 column board (hopefully with upper and lower case) and the plug in printer driver board, etc........
I want it because it was mine for several years, living in my room above my study desk and was how I discovered various music groups, among other experiences. And like others say -- it was a rare species that you will almost never have a chance of seeing ever again. Also, I apparently inherited my mom's sense of appreciation for old/vintage things and nostalgic sensibility, which is like the opposite of my dad, whose mom would be in the habit of tossing things away if they made their home 'messy', which is likely where he got the same tendency. Yep, the Apple IIe got the same 'it's obsolete' treatment as the GE -- probably around the same time, and was likely carted off to Good Will. My dad was not the type to allocate space for large items that he saw as never being used again. It's why I no longer have my original Nintendo, SNES, etc. and have had to pour way more money into recovering facsimiles of my originals and do my best to pretend that they are. It will be a rare and lucky thing if I do run across a well maintained 3-5268a in the wild (e-bay), but I'm mainly glad to have the mystery solved, so thanks again Reli!
Some of my best toys were tossed but I saved a ton of my old stuff. One of my big regrets is my AMT 1/24 Slot Car Set, they were big cars that actually steered. They connected to the track by wire and a small car that ran under the track connected to power.
