Things have been a bit quiet in the old Mirror newspapers but 33 years and one day ago this ad appeared. It makes a change from Woolworth's...
As Erasure sang It Doesn't Have to Be That Way. I have posted this before but will post it here. Remove the word phone and it is extremely...
Book Off to sell record player, Yomuyomu-kun spins around October 11, 2024 10:44 6930 198Natalie Music Editorial Department Bookoff has started...
https://www.minidisc.wiki/equipment/sony/auto/mdx-65 https://www.minidisc.org/part_Sony_MDX-65.html Having seen the price I wonder if £679 gave...
A 1999 advert with a massive range of car stereos from Halfords. They are still around selling car filler, paint, bicycles, and inner tubes etc....
September and the holiday adverts have gone back to retail goods. Dixons (a large high street chain selling electronics and cameras) in 1990 The...
A topical song sung by a girl who had never been to America. Maybe she and her Brother (who wrote the song) had been reading Peanuts...
I don't think anyone under the age of 40 will ever appreciate how great it was to be able to record music off the radio etc. I remember getting my...
We have just been on holiday to Torremolinos in Spain and the hotel had one of these in their sports room. [ATTACH] It seems the machine only...
Speaking as someone who sometimes deals with component obsolescence at work I can think of two reasons. 1) Parts bin specials. If they had a load...
Two comments which just add a bit more information. 1. In the early days of CD vertical players (and top loading horizontal ones) were as common...
I always think of it as "Apple Money". People who spend that kind of money on Apple products now were spending it on Yamaha, Sony, or B&O back then.
Several times recently I have got better results from Bing. Despite knowing the title I couldn't find one of my own threads using Google. With...
No. The Jackal is something eBay showed me when I was looking at something different. I'm not sure if those were ever sold in the U.K. Sony did...
You have to weigh up the cost of the equipment vs the cost of the tools. Technique is probably just as important. As @Cassette2go says take lots...
It was almost like an episode of LGR Thrifts today as we went around Charity shops in Highcliffe, where the average age is "retired", and house...
I have four of the ones in the video MT65, VL1, SK1, and MT400V. The MT400V is the only one I didn't buy in the 1980s.
Not very often, although I did play a cassette last week. Like @Mister X it was something I picked up and wanted to hear. It would bug me if I...
What is even more impressive is that some of the most complicated mechanisms pre-date Computer Aided Design. For example have a look at this Akai...
I think I have posted this before but thought it might be an idea to repeat it Just read this thread and substitute Boombox or Walkman whenever it...
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