I remember buying a very similar unit for about $999 USD in 1988 (if memory still serves). It was the best sounding mini stereo system I ever owned.
So I really loved that Yamaha Turntable Longman posted and finally found some info, it's part of the Yamaha NS Series from 1968, there's a few different versions of it. Longman's looked like the YM-50 at 135,000 Yen. I did 1968 Yen to 2022 Yen to USD and got about $3500 USD! Longman is better at the conversions, did I do it right? Check out the speakers, cast iron baskets that aren't round? I wonder how this sounded back in the day. It's hard to tell what the unit on the YM-50A is, maybe 8-track?
I saw this tasty Toshiba at a local antique store but at $120.00 USD it was a little too much for me.
unfortunately most toshiba sound rubbish mr x so i wouldn't lose any sleep my friend....a member has just sold a couple of toshiba for way way less than that....i have just bought another s90 from him so pics soon if it arrives in one piece ohh my point is look on ebay lad the low end toshibas go for about $20 on ebay forget that guys daft price, i had a couple of toshiba wx1 years ago they sounded quite good but i sold them as they were far to big and heavy even back then
Well done in finding that. I think you calculation is as accurate as what I could come up with. The earliest Yen / Dollar exchange rate I could find was 358 yen to a $ in 1970. That gives a price of about $377 back then, although the Yen seemed to be appreciating rapidly so maybe it was less in 1968 Looking in the Sears 1969 catalogue I found these which are similar in price. Feed that through an inflation calculator and I got $3200/ Of course any of these units were a serious purchase (although less than a top of the range Pool Table at $500). This is what a teenager was likely to get for Christmas. Amusing that the version with the tube amplifier was cheaper than the solid state one. How times have changed.
Radio I'll find those mid-line models every once in a while for $20 USD and I love the ones that have a standard boombox look to them. For some reason I have several of the slightly less impressive Toshibas under that model out in the shop. They had some bare-bones models that used to be everywhere for a few dollars. Other than a few other nicer models, they were slim pickings over here, including the full-size components, I might have one reciever. I love that ad longman with both tube and SS, I bet there was a lot of left over tube equipment and the manufacturers saw the future. As a kid, we loved looking at tubes but they were always considered very old and I'm sure a kid back then would have been mad if their parents didn't get them the SS version.
Went to a indoor market in the local Bingo hall, a guy selling mostly records had brought his last cassettes to sell, there were perhaps 20 or so. I ended up with this nice little haul.
I was dropping off a chemical cocktail at our local recycling center. They also have a free shop with leftover paints, cleaning fluids etc. Unfortunately they trash the electronics but they do display some of the cooler stuff. I used to go to a place south of town, was friends with the manager and he'd sell me stuff off the collection floor. I got some awesome vintage stuff for dirt cheap, it's too bad they don't use this revenue stream, they'd probably choke if they knew how much was getting crushed every week.
I'm not familar with the Nokia, it just looked bad-assed, it looks like it's the Nokia 9000 Communicator? Only 1 for sale on ebay USA and it doesn't have the expansion pacs. The WM-10 was MINT! It's crazy how much wanted vintage stuff these places will crush, personally I've seen something nice just about every time. Luckily our local thrifts have figured it out, 10 years ago, if something didn't work it got tossed. Now non-working units get sold for big money, especially big receivers.
I have a few different Nokia's of the communicator series. Somewhere in a box, no clue how complete but all worked when bought.
I've got an old very small HP Pocket Computer, it works with CAT5, at least it did eight years ago. Our cell service providers have been removing old service bands so a lot of phones don't work anymore, I've got a cool rugged CAT (Catapiller) Phone that somehow keeps chugging along. That one uses SIM cards. I used to love the 2005 Motorola Bricks for contractors with push-to-talk, super loud and you could drop them, wonder if they get any signal these days?
Went to a car boot sale this morning and found a used That's MR-X90 PRO Type IV cassette. It had a nice recording of a Bon Jovi album which I listen to on the drive home. I'll keep it for my stash and record over it at some point. Also found a couple more Technics CD players to add to my stack, an SL-P477A, and an SL-PG490. And finally for today, a TEAC AD-850 CD/Tape/USB seperate which came in its box with remote and manuals. Has been used as the box was opened but is as new. Some more finds next week...hopefully!
Hi all, I found this red Sony CFS-W600 at the car boot this morning. It's missing its speakers but I picked it up anyway. Luckily I checked the voltage before plugging it in when I got home as it's 100v, so I've tested with batteries only. Radio works great, the tapes move a bit, but slowly, so it will need new belts. And I found this at last weeks sale.
The FM band is a big clue that it is a Japanese model. At no point has any station broadcast below 88MHz in the U.K.
A buddy of mine wanted a CD player last winter, he claimed the good ones were hard to find and they wanted some good money for them, maybe the next trend?
Last year a friend bought one of these (or a very similar model) to replace her CD player that had broken. https://www.richersounds.com/cambridge-audio-axc25-lunar-grey.html The silly thing is the next unit in her rack was a DVD player which will play CDs although playing with mine I will admit that it isn't so convenient selecting tracks etc. The good news is that there are still billions of items out in the wild that can play CDs. I have just bought a Sony laptop with a built in CD drive for £25.
Another car boot this morning as it's a Bank Holiday and another walkman find, a working Sony WM-45. Has its belt clip and headphone socket cover too.
