There were some older members, Jens on here and Axel over on The Vintage Knob, those guys knew how to dig and gave me the inspiration. Jens...
Welcome to the forum! What was the first tape you played?
From 1981, dark times ahead... The Business Times (Singapore), 19 November 1981 [ATTACH]
I've always searched out for them, when I was a kid in the 80's, my slightly older neighbor came back from college and couldn't praise AIWA Tape...
Some signed LL Swag, there's a lot on ebay but this is pretty cool! https://www.ebay.com/itm/134636489676? [ATTACH]
Sorry, fixed to the right prefix... https://stereo2go.com/forums/threads/what-is-the-coolest-boombox-sony-built.4611/
1984 [ATTACH]
From November 1979, I always wondered what was going on behind the scenes with Superscope and Sony. Right before the Walkman is released,...
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Marantz from 1982, check out the price on the Mitsubishi X-12 [ATTACH]
1982, this is a tiny mini but the 3-5285A is very heavy. [ATTACH]
1982 USD [ATTACH]
1985, nothing too exciting [ATTACH][ATTACH] [ATTACH]
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1981, not much yet.... [ATTACH][ATTACH]
Found some catalog pages from 1980, wow the top unit was big money. For those that don't know, Wards, Sears and JCPenney were powerhouse...
Thanks Oswaldo, nice to see you popping in. I've had that aiwa in my main rack for years, I just built a monster rack and hopefully I'll get more...
From the 1982 catalog, the rest is on archive.org [ATTACH]
From 1980, the full catalog is on archive.org, thanks Alex C! Check out the modern design stand, the Paco looks like another version of the AIWA...
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