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First pocket-sized transistor radio
(Sony TR-63, 1957)
First pocket-sized transistor radio

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Posted by joesauntie at 2:46 am (PST) on Sat January 9, 2010   
ahhhh, the beloved "JADE" radio of my childhood was a treat from Dad when he got some overtime...mine was olive green and my brother's black....they had a nifty plastic/vinyl case with perforations to let the sound through....I listened back and forth on the dial from KYA and KFRC here in the SF Bay Area...."Ode to BillyJoe" was the big hit that summer!
Posted by paktype at 10:53 am (PDT) on Tue March 13, 2012   
Got a portable transistor radio from my cousin for my birthday in 1978. Listened to many a ballgame with it under my pillow.
Posted by Tommie at 11:54 am (PDT) on Sat May 12, 2012   
My first transistor was a 2-transistor "boy's radio", in 1962. It could only pull in local stations, and only one in town played rock and roll - for only 2 hours a day, 4pm to 6pm. Ninety miles away, Chicago had WLS, which played them 24 hours, but I couldn't reach it. I saved a whole year to get a 6-transistor radio, a very nice Mitsubishi. Now I could listen to DJ Dick Biondi, the "Wild I-tralian"!

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