This past Winter, I was having my car fixed at a repair shop, and boomboxes came up as a topic of conversation. The shop owner said he still had his from a birthday back when he was a kid. He said he would bring it in and show me when I picked up my car.

Well... there it was in all its one original owner, dust covered, in the wild glory!

I had no idea that Crown made TWO versions with only a shoulder strap/no handle!

He wanted a lot of money, but since has lost his business, and leaving his wife. He dropped it off today as he needs some quick cash. I still might have over paid for a box with scratchy controls and a confused cassette mech, but hey!

This thing is TIGHT! Very HEAVY too! Even though it wears a layer of dust, it still has that electronic SMELL to it!!!!

Im so proud! Ive never had an 'in the wild' find of this magnatude before!

I like that boomer, congrats JLF

Yeah! I like them too. Big Crown CSC fan
Do you mean there is another version with handle?
I only know the 980 and 850 with shoulder strap and without handle.

Yeah those were the two versions I was talking about.

I wonder what all is different between them?

Nice score looks very well built

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Originally posted by JLF:
Yeah those were the two versions I was talking about.

I wonder what all is different between them?

I prefer the look of the 850 (round speaker grills) but the 980 got more features:

- plays metal type tapes
- dolby noise reduction
- 4 FM presets
- additional VU-Meter for FM signal