Twins?

Well, yes and no.

They sure look alike, don't they? I was sure the Portland TC-1000T was just a rebadged Sanyo M7900K. Not exactly! Now that I own both (got the Portland just yesterday), I can tell you the Portland wasn't made in Japan by Sanyo, but in Korea by Daewoo. Says so on the nameplate. The sound seems the same (to me), and the controls, as you can see, are virtually identical. What's up?

Well, I'd say what we have here is either a Sanyo design made under license by Daewoo, or a Korean copy of a Japanese boombox!

So... twins from different parents! Is that genetically possible?

1. "they all look alike"
2. "you get hungry an hour after"

Sanyo made in Japan by Sanyo vs. Portland made Korea by Daewoo.

I was thinking more like "a distinction without a difference."

they are cool,aren't they?> I have a Very similar sanyo the 7850k
and the portland i saw on ebay it sold for only like 25-30 bucks a few months ago.

Portland = Sleeper

that sanyo looks like a mini lasonic trc 920 , awesome!.

The sanyo Mini's are very cool,Little powerhouses they are! The Tuners are simply AWESOME! I logged several sw stations on my 7850K that i could not rec on ANY of my pro sw recr's Grundig,Zenith,Sangean,Sony Panasonic,Sharp,Magnavox,Now that is very impressive!

Have you opened up the Portland to see where the parts came from? It might actually have some Sanyo parts.

Love those solid made minis.
They were sold under so many different brands.
And all are looking different.
I have the ELIN and MUSIKLAND version.
Congrats to yours.

actually the sanyo#-m7900 IBBN 7-02124
appeared with 7 aka boxes:

brother#-ot446 IBBN 7-05825
elin-5322 IBBN 7-15028
mark-dw1100 IBBN 7-15083
orbit-rrs1030 IBBN 7-10138
portland-tc1000 IBBN 7-14487
taihan-tc1000 IBBN 7-15625
tensai-rcr244 IBBN 7-16098

plus
i have an EATON-VIKING that looks like another AKA

Musikland:

Definately not,Roman... ::

this one has got another cassette drive (and counter on the right side)

but it has got a bunch of aka`s as well..:

Ok, you win!

But for non-specialists it looks very similar....

BTW: Just wanted to look for the model number of the MUSIKLAND > no one at it.

ViennaSound said:

Ok, you win!

But for non-specialists it looks very similar....

BTW: Just wanted to look for the model number of the MUSIKLAND > no one at it.

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the musikland units often used propper names(eigennamen)
also did tokyo(monkey,barracuda,bidland,beaver asw.)
and radiotone(bilbao,cordoba,george,lissabon,madrid,malga)

musikland:fashion,cube,(they had number-type decriptions as well -it seems not on every unit-begining with 30-.

for example 30-38297 and 30-36952(`donna box)

Jens, do you think Daewoo copied the Sanyo?
Or did Sanyo allow Daewoo to produce some aka's in Korea?

Boom Shaka Laka said:

Jens, do you think Daewoo copied the Sanyo?
Or did Sanyo allow Daewoo to produce some aka's in Korea?

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I believe that your last assumption is true...this thesis has got the most examples.
They might have had some contracts with them- actually ,the entire AKA-WORLD is indeed weird.
Just imagine around different 12.000 are in the base.
More than 5000 of these are aka boxes.


Your question also requires a elaborately,detailed answer.

My research results:
trademark / brand owners signed contracts with the manufacturers.

Manufacturers sold OEM licences.
Manufacturers made contracts,

with : trademark holders like trading chains
with: trademark holders like import companies
with : trademark holders like mail order houses

The situation shows up like follows:
BRANDS are defined by TRADEMARKS within a Copyright protection listings.
This is a matter of cause in the entire planet.
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EXEPT EUROPE !
The European law includes the folowing content.
The BRAND -owner CORRELATES the MANUFACTURER.

That means :if a unit is BRANDED UNIVERSUM (and manufactured by SANYO) :
the MANUFACTURER now is UNIVERSUM (by EU law defination)

The reason her is the law liability for warranty responsibilities.
The EU does not want a responsible warranty counterpart outside EUROPE.
The seller (an EU located company) must be the "person in charge".

What would we do without you, Jens? You are a wealth of knowledge!

have been hoping for years --
that some member would have the nerve to ask jens :

"how do you know"
??????????????

I mean ,it`s really easy to analyze the search results from the base - and related aka lists give hints enough for further studies.

And it`s also quite easy to analyze patent sheets,company backgrounds and affiliations and relationships between companies in relevant trade and technical literature.

I often visit libraries(to research for my profession)
-and so I`m researching some facts for that theme as well.

That`s it.
Easy to answer.
cool.