(April 8, 2012 at 10:56 pm)padraic Wrote: My pride and joy was a Sony TC 560 ,I bought in Singapore in 1969. (duty free; $180. At home; $520)
Yeah, those were the days!
Industrial design was a bit different then
. You had to look hard to find anything not plastic about them! Only the spindles, the recording heads, the chassis, and the screws were metal. Even the chrome 'trimmings' on the knobs were really plastic.


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