There comes a time, inevitably, when your old TV set eventually goes to meet its´ maker either suffering a serious illness or being beyond economical repair. In the '50s and '60s TV sets were not ...
Well, owning a portable radio is one of those things you have to achieve before leaving this planet. Ever since Marconi got fed up with painting his bathroom and decided to invent radio, we have ...
I got chatting to a customer the other day about juke boxes. So I thought I would write and bore you again. Always been fascinated by Juke Boxes. Probably goes back to when I was a kid wandering ...
Well, I have written about Old TVs and radios, HiFi in the 50s-60s, servicing with a personal view of how things have changed. For better or for worse. In Britain, in the ´50-60s, you would have ...
In the 50s, Britain acquired quite a name in the HiFi world. The war effort had halted development and manufacturing of commercial radio and recording and by the mid 50s things were starting to look ...
Seems like cars have always had radios, but they didn't. Here's the true story: One evening, in 1929, two young men named William Lear and Elmer Wavering drove their girlfriends to a lookout point ...
Now, the radio and car were invented around about the same time, Marconi did the radio and another chap did the car. One day, in the 1930s, someone had the bright idea of putting the two together. ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZItD4_NY5EIn the 30s John Logie Baird was playing with his version of television. This was an electro-mechanical system and consisted of a metal disc with holes ...
A customer came in the other day, whilst I was repairing a 1950s record player. I actually had a 78rpm 10” record on the machine testing it. The customer, in her early 20s, looked amazed, wondering ...
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