A few of that style have popped up on our Ebay, they are tempting just because they are so neat but I can't justify the space yet.
Here you go Reli, lot's of good stuff in this issue... https://www.americanradiohistory.com/AUSTRALIA/Archive-Electronics-Australia/1980/EA-1980-12.pdf https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Electronics_Australia_AU.htm The Australian Magazines have a ton of good boombox/walkman information.
What magazines they are with so much in them . I have no scientific/ electronic knowledge whatsoever and it amazes me the depth of detail that there is in each article.
Just check out the links Philip Taylor, there's a ton of different magazines, mostly electronics, that have this information. The magazines seemed to have a lot of audio equipment in the 70's then it switched to computers in the 80s.
I used to think that as well Mystic Traveller but a ton of great first generation websites have disappeared. I've found some of my old links and the sites are gone, some are still on the Wayback Machine but a lot of the photos are gone. Back then it was easy to put up a free site on places like Geocities, Tripod, Excite, Angelfire, etc, but they're all gone along with a ton of cool content.
Some very good sites: http://www.hifi-archiv.info/ http://magnitolia.blogspot.com/ http://nebe.wbs.cz/ http://www.angelicaaudio.cz/prenosne-audio/ http://walkman-archive.com/gadgets/index.html
I agree with Mister X. the latest site to disappear without trace was the PocketCalculatorShow which Stereo2Go was an offshoot from. Another site that I visited in the past but seems to have disappeared was all about Grundig Radios and Cassette Recorders, which is a shame as that is my latest purchase (awaiting cleaning and repair). A few months ago, while looking for that, I found an archive of a Geocities site web page saying that the Geocities site was closing and giving a link to their new site --- which was completely dead. Photos are a particular problem with older sites. Back when Ebay charged for more than a couple of photos I used AOL pictures. That closed and the account was transferred to another operator who didn't allow web photo sharing. Then I started using Photobucket. Recently they started charging a significant fee for that service. By then Ebay had upped the number of photos to 12 so I wasn't using Photobucket anyway. In the cool stuff for sale thread I am now usually putting a copy of at least one photo, as I know the listing and all the associated photos will disappear in about a year. Google seems to be pretty good at retaining pictures though. Quite often a search will show a picture of an item thast has disappeared from Ebay.
We need to get the PCShow back up, I'd pay for it if I had the contact info, that one site brought thousands of people together.
Some Random 70's ads, Centrex by Pioneer RK-112, Desert Sun November 1977 Panasonic RQ-4465, Coronado Eagle & Journal, September 1975
Spin Magazine 1985 https://books.google.com/books?id=ImJFcBcCvUoC&printsec=frontcover&rview=1#v=onepage&q&f=false The Beastie Boys! A little different version of the more famous photo, this has Rick Rubin with them.
Remote controls were pretty big in the late 80's, especially multi-unit single controllers. I just read a small article on Steve Wozniak's CORE Version. His latest and greatest was to do a single controller but I'm not sure if it was ever manufactured. I think Marantz had a version that was semi-successful but I'm going by memory.
