Anyone remember these?
Mar 28, 2020 12:39:58 #
These all date from the 60's and played a big role in the music revolution. When I was a kid, everyone had one and listened to AM because the few FM stations only had classical music (I have since learned to appreciate classical music).
Originally invented in 1954 as a team effort from two different companies (Texas Instruments and another place out of Indianapolis, maybe Ideal??) they were soon on every kids wish list.
The later versions had FM but with only one speaker, you would not get the stereo effect.
These were replaced by the Sony Walkman in the 1970's.
You can still get a transistor radio today but, they do not have the styling that the originals had.
While on lock down, I was playing around with camera and flash. I'm noticing that the images seem in focus on the right side and soft on the left side...I was shooting at f6.3 from about three foot with a 24-70mm zoomed all the way in. Maybe I should have stopped down a little more or focused a little more into the center of the image. I also could have moved the camera back a little.
Thanks for looking.
Originally invented in 1954 as a team effort from two different companies (Texas Instruments and another place out of Indianapolis, maybe Ideal??) they were soon on every kids wish list.
The later versions had FM but with only one speaker, you would not get the stereo effect.
These were replaced by the Sony Walkman in the 1970's.
You can still get a transistor radio today but, they do not have the styling that the originals had.
While on lock down, I was playing around with camera and flash. I'm noticing that the images seem in focus on the right side and soft on the left side...I was shooting at f6.3 from about three foot with a 24-70mm zoomed all the way in. Maybe I should have stopped down a little more or focused a little more into the center of the image. I also could have moved the camera back a little.
Thanks for looking.
Mar 28, 2020 12:45:10 #
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Mar 28, 2020 12:48:34 #
tradio wrote:
These all date from the 60's and played a big role... (show quote)
I still have mine from 1960
Mar 28, 2020 12:50:36 #
Mar 28, 2020 13:04:08 #
Mar 28, 2020 13:04:16 #
I had one, a Motorola. I thought it was magic. You are spot on about the styling.
BTW, my mother grew up on a farm close to College Corner. It was on a road named after her family: Campbell Road.
BTW, my mother grew up on a farm close to College Corner. It was on a road named after her family: Campbell Road.
Mar 28, 2020 13:08:29 #
I got an Admiral for Christmas, put the batteries in and went out walking in the snow for hours. No bluetooth, but I did have blue fingers.
Mar 28, 2020 13:15:11 #
On a visit to New York City as a kid from Idaho I lusted after a "transistor radio" and thought I'd get a real bargain at a "going out of business sale" on Broadway. Very carefully chose one I could barely afford and it soon gave up the ghost. "All Sales Final!" cuz after all, they were going out of business. Many years later I happened by the same spot, the same going out of business sale, offering great deals on whatever. Sometimes takes a long time to go out of business and maybe Covid-19 which none of us have ever seen will shut them down for real.
Mar 28, 2020 13:36:49 #
tradio wrote:
These all date from the 60's and played a big role... (show quote)
Back in those days they frequently came with a single little “earpiece” and the sound was pathetic. In 1971 I was working the night-shift at Lima Linda community hospital. Of shearboredom I fashioned a coat hanger to go over my head as it held two of those crappy little ear pieces in place, one in each ear, wired in parallel . The fidelity was amazing. I should have pat toned the concept, it would have made me “big-bucks. Then came the Sony “walk-man, with my great sound???$$$ sad.
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Mar 29, 2020 06:14:27 #
alawry
Loc: Timaru New Zealand
Here in NZ they were not available. We had to mail order from Hong Kong, I think about 8 or 10 pounds. We had to a postal order from the post office, limited to ten shillings a day and they knew everybody so no cheating. With 20 shillings to the pound, it took twenty visits. It took a month if I remembered every day. Then send of to an address my cousin gave me, and we had to ask for it to be sent as a gift to avoid customs. But it was worth it, a month after that I had a beautiful little Sony radio, it lasted years. I was about 12. I must have had it twenty years.
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