Toshiba Unidentified Boombox? Anyone?

[deech]

While i was on vacation in the SouthWest Peloponnese , i entered a bookstore and i saw this lovely Toshiba !
i got my stuff and paid for them and when i paid
I couldnt help it and asked if it was for sale but they wouldnt sell it. It was used by the grandmother of the
owner and she told me that it hadnt played for 3 years. The transformer burned or something like that and
she only had it there for decorative reasons. Itold her that those kind of damages for these old machines are totally fixable.
Next to it there was a modern soundsystem but every customer who enters
this bookstore thinks that music is coming from this Toshiba Boombox!
i searched for it at some picture boombox sites but i couldnt find the model number of this Toshiba.
I have seen a lot of Toshiba radios but not this one.
Anyone in here knows what Toshiba model is it?

 

[Wes125]

it should have the model number on the back

 

[Reli]

Looks like a RT-8550S without autoreverse

 

[deech]

For sure there would be the model number in its back but it was way up high and the owner would need a ladder to
reach it and i havent asked to get it for me and check it because this boombox was spotted by pure coincidence
and i am not a regular customer at their bookstore. I also thought that i might find it without all this hassle by
checking some pictures at the worldwide web which was not the case

Looks like they are from the same family with the RT-8550S but definitely not the same Reli.
-(i can see you have it in your wantlist and this is a fine looking boombox)-
I thouht to give them a call and check the model but then i also thought maybe i am asking too much
I dont want to bother them so i thought why not bother the collectors, its fan to i.d a boombox anyway.

 

[Wes125]

well ive had a good search about with no luck. i think it was only made for the japanese market only and its found its way into your country

 

[deech]

Well, if it was made only for the Japanese market then the grandmother would need a step down transformer
to make it work which is highly unlikely for the years it was supposed to be in its heyday.
With your help what i have found is that its brother the RT-8550S is also called ACTAS BOMBEAT-10.
It is the BomBeat 10 and early Toshiba radios like those are not seen often !
By saying early Toshibas my estimation is that they are made from 1978-1980.
This can be found and confirmed ofcourse from catalogues and brochures of that time.