Solid-State Love

[spatch]

Oooh, look. The iPods of their day.

(And check out the sweet black cassette player/shortwave receiver combo. With the "tape odometer" as I used to call it on the bottom. Oh man. Daddy want.)

Comments

[duchez.livejournal.com]

we still have a couple of them at home. Still works great.

[mykwud.livejournal.com]

my mom still embarassingly refers to any sort of portable music-playing device as a "ghetto blaster".

[reveritas.livejournal.com]

ha! i love that.

i had one that looked like the white one in the link. total ghetto blaster ... i painted on it with nailpolish and everything.

[mrscake.livejournal.com]

I remember them being called that too! Fortunately, that term's mostly passe'

[djsunkid.livejournal.com]

I love how one of those ads refers to the radio/tape player as "DIGITABLE"

...

pffft

[tenlegspider.livejournal.com]

Ooh, the world before the discovery of soft puffy edges.