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heh - youse guyses might enjoy this (vintage boombox, of sorts)
On the scrap metal pile at my favorite local vintage audio emporium :-) a couple of weeks ago. It's been de-toxing in the garage since then. Today - a rainy day in MA ('til a little while ago) - was a good day to try it out.
It's in poor condition - but it actually works OK. Controls are scratchy (imagine that?!). The tape deck doesn't seem to work... but the radio's fine. I noted with some amusement that it has SW as well as AM and FM. I just couldn't resist it when I saw it in the muck and mire of the scrap metal pile. What a piece of... umm... history... :-P best of all, it had a very nice quality Maxell 110-min metal cassette in it. I am actually listening to it as I type this (on another cassette deck, of course). 1950s doo-wop/pop standards kind of stuff. Odd fodder for a boom box.
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Cool find!
Just yesterday I was thinking about the Sanyo boom-box I had in the mid '70's and wondering where I might have stashed it. It wasn't as big as some of the later ones, but it sounded pretty good and was loud enough to hear in a busy machine shop. |
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This thing is attache-case sized :-P
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Yeah, I remember those. It's from the 80's when there was a resurgence in SW interest. FONY had some with SW on them too.
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I have a purchased-new (ca. 1983) JVC portable with SW... but it is much less -- assertive -- than this Maggotbox.
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I have an old JVC with CD player on top of it all. And a Superscope job I bought new back around 1980. I don't use either.
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SW ?!? How does it do in comparison to MY ol' Bacon-fryers ? May have to Shit-Can 'em all now...(grin)
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All this talk about boomboxes begs the question: Just how BIG did they get?
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I had one about that big....maybe it was bigger. It was about the size of the main unit of one of those 70's radio-phono-tape all-in-one table stereos.
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Unless one was either an Idiot, or a Masochist, I would think trying to balance one of those accursed HARD-EDGED, heavy things on one's shoulder 'twould be a mite uncomfortable..
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When I was in the service business I was repairing a VERY LARGE boom box. It was probably twice the size of that one in the pic. Amazing! It had been dropped (well, duh!) and I had to order many structural parts. Never finished the job, as I couldn't get everything needed, but the customer understood. She picked up the unit and paid me for the parts I did get, and left with a smile, the broken unit and a sack of parts.
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Almost never carried mine it was heavy enough that I doubt I could have gotten it up on to my shoulder, so the handle was the transportation method of choice (when a car(t) was not available). I only had it for a year or two until I sold or tossed it in a move when I was 12.
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If I find either of these at a decent price, the Panasonic RX-7000 or RX-7200, I'll definitely add them to my collection:
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Panasonic was prolly one of the BEST of the lot...They DID have "Standards"...
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