This was one of my most prized possessions as a kid—right up until my sister stole it and traded it for a Cheese String at school.
This was one of my most prized possessions as a kid—right up until my sister stole it and traded it for a Cheese String at school.
Wanted on desperately but my parents said it was too expensive. I now suspect they thought I would be annoying with it.
This and one of those tiny portable tube tvs were my biggest purchasing ambitions.
When I was a kid I had one of those. My parents bought it from a TV repair store. It was a combination 6" TV, audio tape player, and am/fm radio.
It was about 2 feet by 2 feet and about 8 inches thick. It weighed about 20 pounds. It has a carry handle though so I guess it was “portable”…
They had even smaller ones, too. I remember seeing them in the Sears catalog.
I remember them looking sort of like this:
Oh my God, yes those tiny TVs were the pinnacle of cool. It truly felt like you could be some sort of spy with all this cool tech.