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December 22nd 04, 10:08 PM

m II wrote:
wrote:
Back in the 1950's almost any cheap little transistor radio I owned that
had five or six transistors could at night time pick up some radio
stations in New York City and Denver and Detroit and Minneapolis and a
radio station in either (I forget which city now) Los Angeles or
Sacramento.

I would not have thought that there were any CHEAP five or six
transistor radios in the fifties. Didn't the Sixties bring in the less
expensive sets?

You win. It wasn't until the little Japanese companies flooded the market
with cheapies that the prices became very affordable. Before that, an
all-transistor, American-made radio cost about one week's take-home pay.

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