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I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.

Wednesday, January 17, 2024

K is for ♪♫♫♪ Keep on Rocking in the Free World . . . ♪♪♫♪

From the nostalgia files comes . . . 

 
. . . the smallest transistor radio of it's age, Japanese of course!
 
Believed to date from 1966 ('ish) and, while badged to Sharp Electonics, possibly have been made in the subsidiary Hayakawa Electric Co.Ltd. plant? It takes one AA-battery along the bottom, to leave room for all seven transistors! Yours for thirty-quid on feebleBay if you can get any sound out of it, I can get static out of this, so it's still alive, but I'm not sure if it's got it's hearing-aid switched-on!
 
This stuff used to be on Tommorrow's World, now it's yesterday's gimmick.

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