I got me a GE transistor radio from 1966 a couple weeks ago at an estate sale. 50 cents… plus $6 to order a replacement battery holder so I wasn’t overdriving it to death with a battery that physically fit but was 1 1/2 times the voltage. Of course, why does a person really get a transistor radio from 1966? To listen to? Of course not! Terrestrial radio’s bland and awful even through a speaker from '66. Nope! To model it, of course! This was a relatively easy model, as models go. The body of
Transistor 8 66R48 Radio Arvin, brand of Noblitt-Sparks Industries
Boxoffice-May.09.1966
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Vintage General Electric Portable Transistor Radio, Model P-780E, AM Band, 8 Transistors, Made In USA, Circa 1963
Vintage Wales Transistor Radio, Model TR-306, AM Band, 6 Transistors, Made By The Masudo Electric Co., Ltd. Of Japan, Circa 1959
Vintage General Electric Transistor Radio, Model P1821K, AM-FM Bands, 11 Transistors, Made in USA , Circa 1965
Ten Years of Transistors, May 1958 Radio-Electronics - RF Cafe
GEC STARFINDER 4 Transistor Radio 3 Band - 1970's £0.99 - PicClick UK
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