[ATTACH] The Toshiba's side by side...
[ATTACH] The tuner pack connects through 2x3 contacts at the top.
[ATTACH] I like the blue interior of the player.
[ATTACH] From a distance you may think that it's a rebranded Toshiba, but it isn't. The Sharp also feels a bit more metal/solid than the Toshiba's.
[ATTACH] It's not only similar size-and feature wise, even the color scheme's were all the same: Silver player with blue accents and blue tuner...
[ATTACH] Then Sharp... a very similar model, their WF-50G.
[ATTACH] I think it's >95% overlap with the KT-S1 and uses the same tuner pack.
[ATTACH] The KT-S3 is very similar, it's a minor revision of the KT-S1. All of these are functionally very similar to the TPS-L2 with a tuner...
[ATTACH] The tuner pack is not compatible with the KT-VS1, more on that later.
[ATTACH] Ebven though it's a plastic unit, it is quite nice and well built actually. It's a proud member of the Tuner Pack Crew.
[ATTACH] Next up is the KT-S1. If I'm not mistaken, this model came out AFTER the KT-VS1 and if that's true, it's weird to me that the size...
[ATTACH] Next to the tuner pack "quirk", this player has another really cool feature which we saw more often later with Toshiba's: If you push...
[ATTACH] The electronics needed to make a decent tuner were still relatively large, so the idea of a tuner pack was good. Of course, it meant...
[ATTACH] A compact player for its time, almost exactly the size of the Walkman II and released around the same time (not sure which one was...
Going back in time, to the era just a little bit after the TPS-L2 started it all. Some Japanese brands like Toshiba and Sharp were fast followers...
Emiel, I'm taking pictures rather quickly and not in a consistent way. If you have a studio where you can make professional pictures with...
Hi Emiel, I have not reconditioned this one, it still needs a belt and some work. So I don't know yet.
One last tiny detail on this very interesting and weird device: The volume knob. [ATTACH] While the potentiometer itself is a regular one, the...
[ATTACH] So it's 64K x 4 bits according to the datasheet. The datasheet is from 1990 and I'm pretty sure the TPS-R10 came out a few years...
[ATTACH] The Fujitsu 81464-12, in a very uncommon package. Let's see what it's all about:
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