Hi @all,
I am Daniela from Austria and have to admit I am not a collector and I do not have multiple boomboxes (I haven't known the term until some time ago) but I have one which I really love and which is dead for decades. It's a Philips 70CD555. Now I have three of them, all with more or less the same issues - CD Player and Tape Deck dead. Think this sound machine has an incredible sound and for the 80ies it was really innovative with a micro-controller driven autoreverse tape deck which you can program the same way as a CD-Player.
I bought this item back in 1987 and had to safe my money for half a year - it broke right after the warranty expired :-(
Maybe I am getting sentimental? Anyway still listening to 80ies music...
After a long time I am now resurrecting this unit and as far as I can tell at this point it is going to be a huge challenge because there are many things broken. Since it is not possible to get a lot of information about this device I am also documenting my progress on a website to help others to benefit from my experiences. A long time past when I studied electronics (I became a software developer later on) so I will need some time to get back into this topic. I started a month ago to bring this unit back to life and had some success but also facing a lot of other challenges.
Great to see that there so many people out there who love those boomboxes! Awesome pictures of devices I have never seen before.
Kind Regards,
Daniela
I am Daniela from Austria and have to admit I am not a collector and I do not have multiple boomboxes (I haven't known the term until some time ago) but I have one which I really love and which is dead for decades. It's a Philips 70CD555. Now I have three of them, all with more or less the same issues - CD Player and Tape Deck dead. Think this sound machine has an incredible sound and for the 80ies it was really innovative with a micro-controller driven autoreverse tape deck which you can program the same way as a CD-Player.
I bought this item back in 1987 and had to safe my money for half a year - it broke right after the warranty expired :-(
Maybe I am getting sentimental? Anyway still listening to 80ies music...
After a long time I am now resurrecting this unit and as far as I can tell at this point it is going to be a huge challenge because there are many things broken. Since it is not possible to get a lot of information about this device I am also documenting my progress on a website to help others to benefit from my experiences. A long time past when I studied electronics (I became a software developer later on) so I will need some time to get back into this topic. I started a month ago to bring this unit back to life and had some success but also facing a lot of other challenges.
Great to see that there so many people out there who love those boomboxes! Awesome pictures of devices I have never seen before.
Kind Regards,
Daniela
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