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    I don't see a red one just looking at JDM Websites, there is a modern version rendering on The Pocket Calculator Show Website in red and wood.

    I've started getting a small collection of the PC's, just missed one down the street last week for next to nothing. In the early days of the forum I liked them but the older members weren't really into three-piecers and they tended to go for cheap, lucky for me. Another, very rare, later PC came up for sale last year but I just wasn't in the mood at it's price point. I've never seen anything posted on it outside of a catalog page photo.

    Just doing some calculations, the 550 in Japan would have been around $500 (109,800 Yen). I don't think they discounted like they loved to do in the USA so the same box, after shipping, might have retailed for around $700 USD in 1982. At the same time you could get a a full, kind of nice, stereo system from the retailers at the same price. Tough competition plus the one weakness in almost every compo is the speakers, luckily most can use better quality speakers.

    Good luck with your search!
     
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    Cool. I just bought a Discwasher Demag cassette tape demagnetizer off of eBay.
     
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    Thanks :) That there would be a red one was probably just a dream. I had to use Google to figure out why I thought that. A nice example of wishful thinking, haha :)

    https://www.stereo2go.com/topic/ind...9974511314435360&board_oid=193392314111653326

    109,800 Y is M90 and PC-5 territory! With a boombox, the speakers are always a compromise of course. That's why many single-piecers also have outputs for connecting external speakers. Incidentally, I hardly ever do that myself. The technical compromise with the speakers is precisely what gives the boombox its character and why I like boomboxes so much and not stationary hi-fi.

    These days, there are still some nice things to be found in the detachable speaker segment. Yesterday, I received a near mint and complete FH-10W from eBay for under €100. It only has the usual issues like the APM surrounds and cassette belts. Things that are easy to solve. Since I didn't have the FH-10 yet, I grabbed it. The days when you could get these kinds of machines for next to nothing to save them from the recycler are unfortunately far behind us.

    I hope a nice 550 or 50 will come along the same way someday. But my real holy grail of that series is the PC-6 or PC-7. Once I have those I'll probably stop collecting haha
     
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    Figures Mystic has a unicorn white version. I've said it many times before, we only got the boring black versions which would be cool if we had different colors, but 99% were black. The white 550 does have a T-tag on the back, wonder who the builder was (HTD)?

    I found mine locally, I also got the killer Sansui Car Stereo (the first with AM stereo) and some other boomers but I don't remember all of them.

    I wonder which one is the largest and how it compares to the DC-7 which does have some huge speakers attached to it.

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    I see the odd one come up for sale here in Ontario.
     
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    You Canucks probably wanted it to match a hockey puck!
     
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    I have the silver one. I think it looks better.
    I have hockey pucks close :loldiag:
     
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    Something cool my sister found for sale and gave me for my birthday.
    She even found some themed wrapping paper to go with it.

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    If you haven't worked out what it is it is a desk tidy and sellotape dispenser.
    Probably from the "cassette revival" era as it is made in China/
     
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    An new cassette mook is out! Axia, Denon and That's. Shipped from Japan, going for $37 USD which is close to what it's going to cost in Japan.
    https://www.ebay.com/itm/388823346171


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    Another early Sony, the CF-500, this would have been a kid's dream for late night recording of the Top 40. It looks late 60's, right before Sony's were pretty easy to identify, I would have guessed Crown on this one if it didn't have badging.
    https://www.ebay.com/itm/317213894913?


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    A JVC Twinch (2" screen) with a twist! Hall of Fame Baseball Player Robin Yount's JVC, probably given to him in a swag-bag. I've got one of these little beauties, it has some other AKA's, maybe made by Orion? (nickeccles would know) The grill on the dial is for the speaker, overall a really cool little TV that has a matching tiny boombox.
    https://www.ebay.com/itm/126959326708?


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    Fairly rare in the USA, they seem to be more boombox than component stereo. The Marantz MS-300 is very close to the PMS-3500 Boombox.
    https://www.ebay.com/itm/146188435490?


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    I have no idea if these go with this stereo, this is another unrelated listing for the marantz MS-10 Speakers, this guy wants silly money for these and it would be wild if they went together since they're both very hard to find.
    https://www.ebay.com/itm/336060177117?


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