"When a man loves a tape deck...can't keep his mind on nothin' else..." Well, maybe we got those lyrics a little wrong. Uher ad, date unknown.
Here's a 1960s H.H. Scott Stereomaster 2400 FM radio. Think they might have been inspired by the KLH Model Twenty One? Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons/Joe Haupt.
It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a 1968 Radio Shack combination radio and reel-to-reel tape recorder, complete with microphone and AC or battery operation!
What the heck is this thing? Why, it's a Philbrick Model K2-W operational amplifier from the 1950s that was used in analog computers. Those are 12AX7s, which makes us wonder what you could do with this in an audio application.
This 1980s Sharp V2 um, portable player could play both sides of a record automatically. Try that with a VPI or Linn!
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