Portable radio cassette player made by the Sharp Corporation

Made:: 1982-1984 in Japan

maker:: Sharp Corporation

Portable radio cassette player made by the Sharp Corporation

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Portable radio cassette player made by the Sharp Corporation, Japan, 1983, with power cable.

Details

Category:: Sound Reproduction

Object Number:: Y2004.70

Materials:: metal (unknown) and plastic (unidentified)

Measurements:: overall: 190 mm x 405 mm x 85 mm, 2.05 kg

type:: radio cassette player

credit:: Gift of Andrea Winn

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Power cable for portable radio cassette player made by the Sharp Corporation

Power cable for portable radio cassette player made by the Sharp Corporation, Japan, 1983.

Measurements:: overall: 67 mm x 360 mm x 85 mm,

Materials:: plastic (unidentified) and metal (unknown)

Object Number:: Y2004.70/1

type:: power cable for radio cassette player

Portable radio cassette player made by the Sharp Corporation

Portable stereo radio cassette player made by the Sharp Corporation, Japan, 1983. Model QT12.

This QT12 radio cassette player, by Sharpe, is an example of a “boom box”. Self-contained, with radio tuner, cassette deck (or CD player in later models), amplifier and speakers, and battery-operated, boom boxes were the first widely available, portable stereo music players, which allowed people to carry their music with them and share wherever they were (whether the people around them wanted to share or not!). They were extremely popular in the late-70s – 80s but their popularity declined with the introduction of the much more compact and convenient Walkman and subsequently, the rise of digital music formats and streaming.