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Originally Posted by Delawheredad
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One of the boomboxes featured on the first site is described as being powered by eight "DD" size batteries. Is this a typo (did they mean "D"?), or did this one actually use eight of some special type of huge high-output battery that would be almost impossible to find today?
BTW, I have a Panasonic RX-FS400 boom box that I rescued from a trash pile behind my apartment a couple of years ago. The radio works (needs a new FM antenna) but the (single) cassette deck doesn't anymore, although it did when I found the thing. Probably something simple like a bad belt. The battery box cover is missing as well, but the AC cord was still attached when I found the unit. I would have fixed it by now, but the screws holding it together are recessed so deeply into the cabinet that I can't get a screwdriver in there to get them out. I still have the unit, but it is presently gathering dust under my bed, even as I write this. One of these days. . . .
About 30 years ago (more or less), I had a Sanyo AM/FM cassette system that could be classified as a boom box or even a ghetto blaster, I suppose, because it was so big and could rattle the walls at full volume. Stereo, of course, and it could be carried easily on a shoulder. The cassette deck finally went West some time in the late '80s
but the radio worked just fine. Had to put on a new FM antenna, though, some time in the unit's life (I don't remember when anymore). The new one, if I remember correctly, was a couple of times longer than the set's original FM whip, which allowed the radio to pick up more stations than it ever did before.