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I'm feeling nostalgic, post some vintage tech you once owned

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That football game has always sucked but the baseball was pretty good. I remember having to use a boot disk and waiting 5-10 minutes for the 2GS to "wake up the monsters" every time we wanted to play The Bard's Tale.
 
Looks like we're going old school. How about a 1985 era Panasonic boom box?

The radio works, but the cassette tape motor burned out years ago. The magnetic pickup still works, though, so I can plug basically anything into it with the cassette adapter and get noise from it.

It blew my daughter's mind when I was able to connect her iPad to it to play music 🙂

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The top buttons picked up a weird olive green patina. They used to be gray.
 
ultimatebob said:
Looks like we're going old school. How about a 1985 era Panasonic boom box?

The radio works, but the cassette tape motor burned out years ago. The magnetic pickup still works, though, so I can plug basically anything into it with the cassette adapter and get noise from it.

It blew my daughter's mind when I was able to connect her iPad to it to play music 🙂



The top buttons picked up a weird olive green patina. They used to be gray.
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I never had a good boombox. I bought a cheap one for my first car because it didn't have a stereo but it was kind of a bust because it was too quiet.
 
IronWing said:
Oh, sorry. I still use one of these on a daily basis:

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My 2004 era iPod Photo died a few years ago. I'd imagine that the lithium-ion battery pack eventually exploded inside it, which was also the fate of my iPhone 3G. When it died, the back of it blew up to the point where the plastic case cracked. That kinda bummed me out, it was going to be a collectors item someday.
 
I remember when the Walkman cassette came out. They were expensive at the time.
This GE equivalent was larger but it was about 1/2 the price. I used to be able to play music
while riding my motorcycle on long trips with headphones in my helmet.

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esquared said:
I remember when the Walkman cassette came out. They were expensive at the time.
This GE equivalent was larger but it was about 1/2 the price. I used to be able to play music
while riding my motorcycle on long trips with headphones in my helmet.

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Heh... I had the Sharp model. AM/FM Stereo cassette, and it was only $20 on sale! Quite a bargain at the time!
 
ultimatebob said:
Heh... I had the Sharp model. AM/FM Stereo cassette, and it was only $20 on sale! Quite a bargain at the time!
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No radio with mine. The original Walkman's didn't have radio either.
IIRC I paid 65-75 at Long's drugstore.
I think the Walkman's were 150 or so at the time.
 
I also had one of these. Toshiba FM only radio used only with earbuds.
Sound was amazing at the time for something so small.
Small as a matchbox

31 x 59 x 13.5 mm / 1.2 x 2.3 x 0.5 inch


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Suitcase stereo. One side of the suitcase has radio, record player and cassette player, the other aide are two speakers.
 
esquared said:
No radio with mine. The original Walkman's didn't have radio either.
IIRC I paid 65-75 at Long's drugstore.
I think the Walkman's were 150 or so at the time.
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Yeah, when I bought mine the comparable Sony model was still $70. The fancy one with auto reverse and Dolby noise reduction was $100 🙂
 
ultimatebob said:
Maybe he's complaining that we're not going old Enough? 🙂
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And yes ... my dad had one almost exactly like it! 😉

(Bought as an antique ... he restored it... even I'm not THAT old!)



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I still have a radio almost exactly like this one except it has an external AM antenna along with the FM. Works perfectly. I purchased it in a Radio Shack B&M store at least 25 years ago "open-box" ... lucky thing the store guy threw in a 2 year extended warranty lol.


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IronWing said:
I never had a good boombox. I bought a cheap one for my first car because it didn't have a stereo but it was kind of a bust because it was too quiet.
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That model is surprisingly loud. If I remember right, I got it on sale for $40 from my local drug store. The first thing I did with it was tape the Miami Vice theme song off of TV, which seems like a totally 80's thing to do 🙂
 

I can't go that old, but here's an interesting relic that's older than me:

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My mom gave me this one. It's an early 1970's era Vornado 10 Transistor AM radio. Apparently only the good transistor radios had 10 transistors, most of them only had 6 🙂

It takes a 9V battery, has a mono earphone jack, and it still works! The fake wood grain is super classy, too.
 
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