I use IPA to initially clean as much dirt as possible off with a ton of q-tips. If your working on the tape path, foam q-tips may be better....
Nice catch, I believe its the JVC KD-2, it's very nice looking but AO says it's bulky and plasticy. I'd still like to get one, one of these days,...
I love these Olympus D-System Microcassette Players, I've posted the patents and my own unit in other threads, this one has just about everything...
Now that is a collection, From&for HongKong thanks for sharing! I'm on the other end of the spectrum, mine are usually long forgotten units found...
Those are interesting finds, DBX, Dolby C and the rest. I found a Scorpions CD that was signed once but they had it made out to a female, kind of...
I've got an 8290, for 1980 these were very modern looking and they've aged extremely well. The dual antennas are so nice, they look much better...
The Japanese Literature portrays some boomboxes as the center of a home entertainment systems, usually with external speakers, a turntable and a...
I wonder how many hidden treasures there are still out there. I was just at our local hobby store where trains seem to be on the way out. They...
I've never seen a Hitachi portable, anybody on the forum have one of these rare beauties? Pulled from the Japanese Handball Association Journal....
[ATTACH]
This is close to $850 USD in 1980, I think some of the "monster receivers" were in this price range. [ATTACH]
Another Hitachi Ad from the Japanese Handball Association Journal 1980. [ATTACH]
Looky looky looky, Hitachi was big into the Japanese Handball Market, from the Japanese Handball Association Journal 1982, found on the Wayback...
I'll take any big AIWA 70's Portable, this even has an LCD display which would have been fairly advanced back then, maybe the first on a boombox....
Remote controls were pretty big in the late 80's, especially multi-unit single controllers. I just read a small article on Steve Wozniak's CORE...
Today is cassette store day, I'm going to celebrate by cranking up some old media. There's also a shortage of new tape media, good thing I've got...
I have to get over to Best Buy and check one out but I like Ion Products and feel like this may be a decent box for carrying around. The looks...
Good luck, most of it just takes patience and good eye sight.
Welcome DrWebster, I was just out in the shop trying to get some power flowing around a Hitachi 3D box. It's nice to know there's a few of us in...
They seemed to be in a ton of 80's movies and I'm a huge fan of soundtracks. I just read they also did Grand Theft Auto V, I did not know that,...
Separate names with a comma.
