I decided to look what the large U.K. retailer Argos was offering in 1979. Two Stereo Boomboxes. [ATTACH] Eleven Stereo Music Centres ranging in...
Watch the video especially the bit about the use of "rare earth" magnets, which were a massive improvement over the ones that were used before. My...
Absolutely In fact if you look at the video I posted in this thread http://stereo2go.com/forums/threads/40th-anniversary-of-the-walkman.4546/ the...
Interesting to see this small Hitachi. Back in the 1980s one of my managers had a very small HiFi which I recalled being a Hitachi but I couldn't...
I have an AJ-490 or a very similar box in storage. It is an unusual design with all the controls below the deck and speakers.
Yes. The various names are explained in the Wikipedia article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walkman I had read before that people in Sony didn't...
In the U.K. it was the opposite. I think the only time I have seen an Apple II was in a museum. The PET and TRS80 were both quite popular in...
We never had anything that advanced. I recall taking a cutting from the Sunday Times about the launch of the PET in 1977 into school to show the...
An explanation of the Alien connection [MEDIA]
A "gated community background music source" rather than a "Ghetto Blaster" :wink2 Somehow the music on this video seems so appropriate for such a...
As the diagram shows that is the model with speakers built into the sides as well as the front. Like a Kaboom but years before JVC had the same idea.
Seeing a 1978 advert for Casio made me seek out this one. [ATTACH] The first Casio plastic/resin watch and my birthday present back in 1978. I...
I have got to like that, after buying a CFS45L (the European version with Longwave) new back in 1980. It cost me about two weeks wages and was...
Do you get their cars in the U.S.A. ?...
Ever since @Mister X started posting these articles from Singapore I have been wondering what they do there nowadays. I reckon that a large...
I know that some of you like other "antique" gadgets including Digital Watches. How about this one ? A 20th Century Smartwatch. [ATTACH]...
The models are pretty cool as well. Are they Lego or something else ? Back in the 1970s my friend had the Airfix, Saturn V...
Select "completed listings" on eBay and you can see what people were actually prepared to pay for items, as opposed to what chancers are asking....
Even amongst Radio Amateurs there are some who I jokingly refer to as "The knob came loose so I decided it was time to upgrade to the latest...
I fitted Alpine speakers into a Sharp boombox, after my attempt at replacing the rubber surrounds failed....
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