Portable Cassette Player Newspaper Ads!

I'm trying to find some good ads in this Dutch Newspaper from Aruba but they're either smeared with ink or not interesting. This one does have the awesome GF-515 from 1983, if I'm doing my calculations correct, 799 Guilders = $277 USD or $173 USD ($577 today) on sale, not a bad price for a higher end boombox.

 

From 1971, Sony was really starting to push compact cassette players. USD.

 

Ampex 1971, USD.

 

1987, yea AIWA still had some nice stuff left in the tank.

 

From 1983, just some pricing. The Walkman 7 was still big money and Sanyo was coming on big in the lower cost market (which I belonged to). The JVC DC-7 makes a showing, just a monster of a boombox with a horizotal TT. Portable, yes, but man they weigh a ton.

 

Fuji 1992

 

Finally some LaSonics, Fuji 1992, wonder how much the TRC-931 retailed for?

 

1981, I'm guessing soft-touch was pretty new for a boombox?

 

1978, USD

 

1981, the M60 looks like a beast and very expensive. USD

 

Some early GE's from 1976, USD









This is wild, GE had a radio called the "Searcher" just like Sharp and at about the same exact time!

 

GE 1983

 

1981

 

1982

 

They must have felt the pinch from all the Sanyo Sportsters that were around $40 USD and decent quality.

 

1982

 

GE from 1984




Color TV! This is from 1984 so the Stereo Microcassette Boom had broken.......

 

1977 GE





One of the first BBX lines from GE was called Monogram, I think this was a higher end series?

 

1982, USD