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Old 04-09-2016, 02:07 PM
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Quite an interesting oddity.
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Originally Posted by jsowers View Post
This was also made before the advent of the battery-powered cassette player and a long time before the boom box.
The Compact cassette was released in Europe in 1963 and in the USA in 1964. Given it's size I'd imagine battery powered transistor portables were available from the get go.
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