I thought I had a serious issue with some of my collecting habits, it's refreshing to see other collectors out there and seeing this equipment being loved again. Tape decks were always the hardest for me because they are so large and I had to leave a bunch because I just didn't have the room. I was just watching a video on a guy showing off his Sony Indextron Micro-TV, I guess that even little CRT's are popular along with slightly larger versions for the gaming crowd.
We had one of those Sony cube TV's in the kitchen when I was growing up. It got destroyed by something although I can't remember exactly by what. Probably by one of my mums' over-ambitious cheese souffles. lol
It sounds like they had a bad batch of caps so most were recalled and the others that didn't get returned, now need to be recapped.
Sorry if posted already, he just put up this killer Braun. https://blog-goo-ne-jp.translate.go...tr_sl=ja&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc
There is some interesting stuff on the Sharp history website. https://design.sharp.co.jp/design_column/1991lcmuseum Using Chrome I just right click and select "Translate to English". The story of the double sided TV is interesting, although years before that Baird were trying to do colour TV by firing electron beams at both sides of a plate with different colour phosphors on each side. Regarding the 8.6" wall mounted TV I would love to know when I saw Sharp exhibiting a 20" LCD at an AV exhibition. Definitely before 1996. However, rather than it being a "coming soon " product it was a "look at what a technological miracle we managed to make" thing. Yields on early LCD displays were very low and the bigger the display the lower the yield. Trying to find out why I found this https://www.ietlabs.com/pdf/GR_Appnote/Solving the TFT LCD Yield Problem.pdf Of course testing the substrate before assembling the whole display seems obvious but someone had to work out how to do it. The yield problem reminds me of Sony's (in)famous Chromatron display. A colour CRT brighter and sharper than any shadowmask tube which required no convergence adjustments. The issue was that if the alignment was off during manufacturing the only option was to throw it away. In contrast Shadowmask tubes and the Trinitron tube which followed Chromatron can be tweaked after manufacturing in all sorts of ways using magnets.
More vintage audio than portables but a very fun read http://www.mitame.net/lt-5v.html English https://www-mitame-net.translate.go...&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp&_x_tr_sch=http
A blog with some neat oddball tapes and some popular ones, just photos and some descriptions from the buyer. https://vwcozy-hatenablog-com.trans...uto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp https://vwcozy.hatenablog.com/entry/40376425
https://blog.naver.com/juneeeeeee/221100909557 There's a big list (mostly Sony) of BBX's with production dates. Maybe we can get Reli to start adding dates to the WBB?
Korean Site with some boomboxes https://www.soriaudio.com/index.php?mid=radio&page=2&document_srl=60487860
Hello Guys, lots of great photos I love that old sony walkman CD player . I got my lot of transistor radio that I won few of the early ones are from the 1960s one is a Toshiba and the other is Jcpenny branded set made by Toshiba both came out in 1961 and I have another 1950s general Electric . Sincerely Richard
Some good Walkman Information from a local retailer https://www-musicfirst-biz.translat...tr_sl=ja&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc
Edit 1/16/26 Sadly Goo Blogs is gone, yea the internet seems to be scrubbing all these wonderful first generation websites from the net. While they're trying to put some like GeoCities and Yahoo.jp back online, I have a very difficult searching through them. Even archive.org is very difficult if you don't know the web address for a specific site. Goo Blogs is shutting down, I haven't looked at the posted links in this thread but they will disappear soon along with a ton of information. Similar to many other wonderful free JDM Websites, these "mom & pop" websites fueled early internet growth with a look into the rest of the world. I just posted this link in the Sankyo Thread, there's some cool info on 70's video games in it. https://blog.goo.ne.jp/nazox2016/e/84a5cccd101241d3f27a656dca202bcb
A newer blog site with component decks, there's a ton of cool repair info in here. English https://showa--cassettedeck-cocolog...&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp&_x_tr_sch=http Japanese http://showa-cassettedeck.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/2008/01/post_b435.html
Technics, unfortunately the photos seem to be lost and I can't get it to translate. https://web.archive.org/web/20080215235249/http://www.pluto.dti.ne.jp/~lusye/odio/tecni.html Fixed link....
AV Watch always has some great pages, this one has a big beauty from the past, the National RX-5350 https://av.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/review/review/1524780.html
