Early Motorola "all transistor" AC operated clock radio

[radiotvnut]

I just bought this off of ebay and am waiting on it to arrive. It's a Motorola all transistor model CX27-G AC operated clock radio. I notice that it says "all transistor" instead of "solid state" and it still has "CD" markings on the dial. By it having "CD" markings, wouldn't that put it in the pre-'64 category?

Really, I don't run into very many early AC only transistor radios. I have one GE AM clock radio with CD markings from around '62 or '63. It seems that solid state electric table radios didn't really become common until the mid '60's. I guess that's because many of the early solid state AC sets used high voltage output stages and large value filter caps in the power supply. I'm sure, during the early '60's, it was cheaper to build a regular tube radio; even though the technology was in place to build a solid state AC only radio.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...=STRK:MEWAX:IT

When I get the radio, I'll post pictures of the inside. I suspect it's a hot chassis setup, just like most tube radios of the day.