Portable Cassette Newspaper Ads!

A very early ad for Conion CR-P46 from 1976

 

Conion CRC-H76F 1989

 

Some Silver for Christmas 1976

 

Very early ad from AIWA from 1972

 

Fairmate CR-353 from 1980

 

Fairmate RD-746 from 1980

 

Fairmate CS-620 from 1980

 

Some boombox pricing in 1981, this is Singapore Dollars which were around 75% of USD.

 

Sanyo M-4200 from 1974

 

Sharp GF-9494X from 1980

 

We rarely see advertising for the Sony TCS Line, from 1980, the Sony TCS-300 which also records, I think this was a big of a deal as the small Walkman, before this most portable (field) recorders were pretty large.

 

Some Philip Boomboxes in Singapore from 1984

 

Some neat Silver Boomboxes from 1978, price is in Singapore Dollars!

 

Some neat stuff from 1982 Singapore, yep even a Sharp GF-8 Sighting, maybe the first ever?

 

Some goodies from 1981 Singapore, check out the JVC RC-S5, a cool little boombox, I think the price x .75 will get you USD, so even back then this was a really expensive boomer.

 

JVC was on top of the world in 1981, here's some of their electronics from Singapore, it looks like the M80 was the king of the hill at the time, it's odd that the M90 doesn't appear in most ads.

 

Yea, some of these ads are eye-openers for me Longman. I remember stereo for us got big with FM radio around 1978 but before that we didn't see alot of it. Most teens had some sort of TT with two speakers but nice equipment or even headphones with stereo were pretty rare.

 

One of my favorites, the JVC RC-828W makes an early sighting in 1977! Maybe one of the members can clarify the "W", I thought it stood for dual tape decks but this is really early for that.