I am Attila, i am not a collector - yet - but my father in law is one. He was working as a TV/Radio repairman for basically more than 30 years, or so - his career started with (totally deadly) tube radios from the late 40s/50s. now he is retired but after 5 years he suddenly realised he can't live without fixing things and they are roughly knee deep in stuff - mostly from Europe/Germany/Hungary. He restores devices in his spare time (read: the whole day) but sadly doesn't speak english so i volunteered to hunt down service manuals and other repair resources for him. I was hunting for docs about the AIWA CA-70 boombox when i found this amazing corner of the internet. this is a treasure trove! thank you very much for keeping these amazing devices alive.
Luckily nowadays people are a bit weird to throw their older cassette gear away, so my father in law was able to come by some really nice units from the 80s - which currently sit around in his garage as he revives them one by one. I hope i can persuade him to share pictures from the restored units somehow.
As far as it goes for me, i still have my compact cassette collection from the late 80s/early 90s, tucked away safely in 2 suitcases. My old Philips D-8132 (orange/red) is fully operational apart from the broken aerial - but hardly sees any usage - i got it as a gift back when i was 11... back in those days it was hard to find 'technology from the west' behind the iron curtain.
Luckily nowadays people are a bit weird to throw their older cassette gear away, so my father in law was able to come by some really nice units from the 80s - which currently sit around in his garage as he revives them one by one. I hope i can persuade him to share pictures from the restored units somehow.
As far as it goes for me, i still have my compact cassette collection from the late 80s/early 90s, tucked away safely in 2 suitcases. My old Philips D-8132 (orange/red) is fully operational apart from the broken aerial - but hardly sees any usage - i got it as a gift back when i was 11... back in those days it was hard to find 'technology from the west' behind the iron curtain.
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