I have no idea. The box, instructions, and original headphones disappeared years ago. The date on RadioMuseum is ten years out, so I wouldn't...
The TRS80 and Commodore PET were really aimed at small businesses for accounting etc. The sweet shop lady in the TV programme was using a PET. At...
I was looking at the Christmas 1982 Dixons catalogue and was surprised to find four pages of computers. At the start of 1981 Tandy (Radio Shack)...
I still have mine, a Sanyo M-G11 bought in John Lewis in about 1983 for about £30. When I last tried it about a year ago it still worked O.K....
Regarding the voltage rating, that indicates the highest voltage the capacitor is designed to withstand. The problem is that higher voltage...
Saturday's CD was a "best of" by album featuring a couple of new tracks by an artist I didn't have any CDs of. There was one track (a cover of a...
In my experience iTunes got worst as it got updated basically turning into a storefront for Apple Music. There was a version that came out three...
You might be one of the last people to have that experience. What will 21 year olds find in 21 years time. A Spotify playlist ? What are the...
By the end of 1982 music centres were becoming more affordable [ATTACH] Those with plenty money would have been buying Technics stack systems,...
I wonder if it is age related ? During the 1990s I was buying a couple of full priced CDs a month so my CD collection must have cost a couple of...
From the amount of CDs that turn up in charity shops I guess I am an atypical user hanging onto my physical media. Despite buying the 64GByte iPod...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-61401626 I'm surprised that the iPod has only been around for 21 years. CDs are coming up to forty while...
For a long time the main argument was that it was pointless having stereo unless the speakers were a couple of yards (metres) apart. Most...
No. It is this company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Technology That might explain why the Victor name couldn't be used for electronics...
AKA Prinzsound Stereo 8. Mine is in the queue of items to fix...
This one https://world.casio.com/corporate/ They must have sold quite a few G-Shocks to pay for it :nodding:
Time for an infomercial :wink2 Both of my JVC Mini DV camcorders developed tape loading faults "eject the tape and reload it" despite them having...
I think I have half one of those JVC camcorders. A UK company was using the deck for a completely different application (probably Avionics) so...
No Cassette tape yet. The unit on the right is a portable reel to reel tape recorder that will even operate off batteries.
So it appears there was a remote control, but it was an optional extra with its own instruction manual. I wonder how much that cost. Probably a...
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