Portable Cassette Player Newspaper Ads!

GE 1978

 

1984, now I believe 13 watts a channel, I have a different model and it's heavy.

 

1984

 

1984

 

1991, I bet the TV/player was big money, too bad there's no pricing.

 

1985 USD

 

1986, we used to scan the Sunday Newspapers for electronic ads and find the best pricing. Every once in a while you'd find a nugget like the Toshiba marked down a little more than the others but it's still $117.00 USD in today's dollars, big money for a student.

So mulitply by 3x to get close to today's pricing, can you imagine spending $500 today on the CFS-7000? That's 1/2 the fun of finding good deals on vintage audio.

 

1983, kind of looks like a WM-R2 to me, bait and switch or are the models switched? I don't have a TCS-350 to confirm.

 

Another sale priced red Sony WM-2.

 

Sony WM-3 from 1983, these bricks would have been "uncool" compared to the WM-2.

 

1986, I don't know if they're selling the RC-S40 or the RC-W40, too very different models. I was hoping to compare the two models with the same list price.

 

1987

 

1988 A lot of these ads are for the university bookstore, sadly my local store didn't have electronics, I bet this store was packed on sale days.

 

1981, the Sony onslaught was about to begin

 

1990, I never saw JVC Models back then but the name and styling alone were probably a big hit along with decent pricing.

 

1983 The Sanyo M9901 is a nice midi boombox, the kind you'd bring to the beach.

 

1988

 

1983 The C4 is one of the nicer Sanyo C Series boomers.

 

1986

 

1982