Last weekend I was close to posting this on the "Cool Stuff For Sale" thread but then decided to buy it myself. [ATTACH]...
I couldn't see a price on the first F1. I would dismiss the second one. For 75 Euros I would expect a working one. As @Mister X says the...
It looks more like glue to me. Through hole capacitors are more likely to blow the deliberate scribe lines in the top. As for why they would be...
I have read that in the past people used Radio Control model fuel line as a replacement.
I would be surprised if there wasn't the odd American music shop selling the very music orientated CX5M. When I went to Spain in the late 1980s I...
In the early 1980s the British computer market was one of the largest so there was competition between start ups and traditional companies to get...
I wasn't expecting to find an American radio with Longwave on it at a local car boot sale. In case you are wondering it has a total of nine bands....
I bought my first VCR on December 27th 1984 (the first day of the sales). Electronics retailer Lasky's were advertising Fisher top loading VCRs...
Some interesting information in the link. Maybe it is the translation but I was surprised at the comment: "Personally, I only became aware of...
Colour TV Radio Cassettes seem to be a rarity. Philips did a fairly big one. This is the first time I have seen this JVC [ATTACH]...
A £50 radio cassette and a £90 CD mechanism ? Everything about CDs was still quite expensive back then.
The pictures remind me of a "Vintage Communications Fair" I went to in the Birmingham NEC years ago when it was held on the same day as a Ham...
There is some interesting stuff on the Sharp history website. https://design.sharp.co.jp/design_column/1991lcmuseum Using Chrome I just right...
What an oddity. Translating from https://design.sharp.co.jp/design_column/1979_pc2000 gives 1979 (Showa 54) RateCaputa April 24, 2023 IN HISTORY...
A 3.3" full colour LCD would have been cutting edge stuff back in those days.
Orion was more associated with cheap VCRs. However, they made ones like this which no major manufacturer would dare to, although Amstrad sold a...
I expected adverts to drop off after Christmas but 34 years ago today Dixons were still advertising portables. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] That Goodmans...
James' recent comment in the thread about Akihabara made me wonder if BIC Camera was still going. That led me to this video [MEDIA] The only time...
It seems VWestlife was one of the few Americans to buy a MiniDisc recorder back in the day. He isn't as big a fan as Techmoan though [MEDIA]
By complete coincidence, yesterday I found out that the "choir" in this track was done using twelve tape loops running half way across the studio....
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