Portable Cassette Newspaper Ads!

Some more goodies from 1985, pricing in USD. A rare siting of a Fisher Keyboard Boombox, unfortunately Fisher had such a crappy reputation from it's all-in-one stereo racks.

 

Hitachi TRK-5050 1977

 

National RF-966MB from 1977

 

National Boomboxes from 1974

 

National RQ-543 ADS from 1976

 

AIWA CS-880 from 1982, AUD

 

1985 Boomboxes, AUD

 

Sharp GF-555 from 1980, AUD

 

Sharp Boomboxes from 1985, AUD. The top recorder is interesting, I'm not sure who was buying those at the time.

 

Some neat Sanyo's from 1981, price is AUD. I've got an M7900 and M6400, both are very high quality builds, they fit into the mini-boombox catagory.

 

Radio Shack's little portable from 1983, Panasonic RX-1920 clone?

 

Radio Shack Modulaire 850 from 1987, price is AUD. It can record at 1/2 the normal speed, I wonder how much better that makes the sonics.

 

Lot's of goodies from Singapore Charlies including a very rare ad for a Disco Lite! from 1988, AUD

 

I don't remember ever seeing product manuals over here but English Versions are around. I think the Japanese had to print pricing on their ads because they all have it. As far as I know, that's the set price, over here our electronics stores would heavily discount.

Example, store buys JVC RC-XXXX at $100 USD, puts on floor at $200 USD but then has "BIG SALE" and marks that down 30% for a $140 USD sale price. Different countries have different ways of doing business and I'm not familar with most of them.

 

Those CF Mono Boxes are cheaper than I would have thought.