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One of Toshiba's finest radio designs and a contender for one of the coolest transistor radio desgins ever.....
The concentric speaker design has been compared to the grill of an early 1950's Studebaker. Many transistor radio collectors are convinced that the Toshiba design team was influenced by the Studebaker and the American fascination with all things automotive....
Update (July 22, 2008). I just saw a photo here on Flickr which now leads me be to believe that the automobile in question (which may have been the inspiration for this design) was the 1952 Pontiac "Chieftain". More specifically, it's dashboard clock. Have a look for yourself.
www.flickr.com/photos/flat6s/2662693354/in/pool-vintageradio
Thanks to 'flat6s' for that.
Please visit this link to see a great pic of a Studebaker grill (circa 1951).
www.flickr.com/photos/neversaydie/344083654/
thanks to 'Duff Suds' for this image.
So, Studebaker or Pontiac? I suppose this type of geometric design was widely used on several cars of that era....we may never know.
Update July 27:
Recent emails with transistor radio expert Alan Kastner confirm both our beliefs that this should now be called the "Crop Circle" grill :)
L to R - Trancel T-7, Toshiba 6TP-219, Pennys 6TP-243, Gibraltar P-1405, Pennys 6TP-243
All are fundamentally the same radio - made by Toshiba with minor cosmetic differences.
Unlike it's rival (Sony) Toshiba had no problem manufacturing radios for other companies. It turned out to be an effective way for them to enter the world marketplace.
Within this photostream/collection you will encounter radios made by Toshiba under the following brand names:
Trancel
Pennys
Gibraltar
RCA Victor (Canada)
Marconi (Canada)
Champagne
Realistic
Eldorado (not in this collection)
This is a modern 2.5-inch Toshiba hard drive (model MK6465GSX, 640 GB) opened to expose the platters.
This drive was supplied with my old HP laptop. It was taken out of service and replaced with a WD Blue of the same capacity after accumulating a large number of reallocated sectors. I had already secure-erased it and was ready to destroy it, so I figured I might as well open up the drive and snap some shots of it.
Opening the drive required a Torx T5 screwdriver bit. Keep in mind that opening a hard drive renders it unusable, so don't do this with a working drive!
Date - 31th December 2012.
Location - Tauranga.
Locomotive - DSJ4060.
Make - Toshiba Heavy Industries.
Operator - KiwiRail
This leather bound coat pocket radio was made by Toshiba. Realistic was the brand name for the electronics product line sold by Radio Shack**
This is a fairly early radio, May of 1959 to be exact. (it does appear in the 1960 Radio Shack catalog) Notice the reverse painted tuning dial is exactly the same one used on the ultra rare Toshiba 5TR-221 (pic below).....there must have been some left over parts at the factory.
The radio shack catalog declares that this radio could be used as a phono amplifier or a P.A./intercom system. There is a phono plug on the side, just below the headphone input.
No model number on this one at the moment. In the catalog the number 90LX696 is affixed to the radio's description but I think that was the Radio Shack stock number.
It was a $5 flea market find but originally sold for $30 fifty years ago. If you're looking for investment opportunities don't look here.
**Radio Shack was founded in 1921 by the Deutschmann of Boston Mass. The supplied equipment for amateur radio operators. In the 1940's they released their first mail order catalog and in 1954 the Realistic brand name was born. In 1962 Radio Shack was bought by the Tandy Corporation.
Manual for the Toshiba Desk Station IV. This user's manual came with the Toshiba T4400SX and the T4400SXC. I really like the extremely low resolution on the front picture.
I have just acquired this old portable 486, with 8Mb of RAM. It has Windows 3.11 installed. I will use it in my PARTYland pinball machine. The computer will run a modified version of Pinball Fantasies in real DOS.
Data will be exchanged between the computer and the pinball machine through the parallel port. Some of the binary patches that do it have already been successfully tested using dosbox (DOS emulator).
If you are interested, you can read the wiki at code.google.com/p/how-to-build-a-pinball/
The classic "Deep Vee" radio in ivory.
What an elegant reverse painted dial and chevron. Further on you will find a beautiful black example.
Note the Seabreeze brand name at the bottom left of the speaker grille.
Seabreeze is a Toronto, Ontario based company founded in 1945. They began by producing phonograph motors and branched into hi-fi equipment, reel to reels, portable record players and other consumer electronics.
Seabreeze also relied on other companies to manufacture their products and simply re-branded them for sale in Canada.
The company is still in business today and now produces "home comfort products" such as fans, cooling and heating systems etc.
The suggested retail price for the 6TP-309 was $37.95
Every transistor radio collector wants one of these. Nicknamed the bathscale because it looks like, well, a bathroom weight scale. Obvious.
This came from a seller between Bolton and Chorley, he used to work at a furniture shop that once had an electrical department. When they stopped stocking electrical items the remaining stock was sold cheaply to the staff. He had used it as a second set until the analogue turn off.
Weeks after buying it the setter was nice enough to post me the instructions & some other paperwork.
It's quite a bit more advanced than the other sets I have collected, with remote control, fastext, and an on screen display for the settings. Possibly due to the chassis design it doesn't had a headphone socket or any auxiliary connections, which were becoming more common on TVs in the late 1980s.
It was made in the UK in about 1989. The model number indicates the screen side (15) Teletext (T) year of introduction of 1989 (9) and made for the British market (B).
Screen: 15 inches colour.
Tuner: 40 channel electronic tuning.
Controls: Power, volume, colour, brightness, contrast.
Other features: Teletext with fastext, on screen display for picture settings, tuning and channel change.
I was already interested in old TV programmes & films before I started collecting old sets.
Now I have an excuse to watch things on an age or visually appropriate device.
The Toshiba 7TP-303 has been nicknamed the "Cat's Eye" radio by transistor radio collectors. The black arrow (inside the tuning window) is inside a gold half moon which creates that image.
Many collectors dismissed this radio due to its bulky/square shape. I now understand the practical reason for this since I found the matching external speaker box.
Nice BIG chevron on the speaker grill - very space age.
This 6TP-31 "bathroom scale" set differs cosmetically from the other example seen in this photostream (the 6TP-31A). This one has a longer spear on the speaker grill and the Toshiba name is placed on the metal escutcheon rather than reverse painted inside the tuning window.
Now you're going to have to find the other one and compare.
Toshiba ha contribuido con el desarrollo de dispositivos y componentes electrónicos destinados a mercados de consumo de alto crecimiento, así como innovaciones en tecnología de audio, video, conectividad y hasta energía nuclear, entre otras cosas, coadyuvando de esta manera al desarrollo de las sociedades contemporáneas a lo largo de 134 años.
Fuente: www.toshibalatino.com/tdmmexico/tdmexico/Corporativo.aspx
Reverse painted dial for the Toshiba 6TP-309A circa 1959-60.
Again, the Civil Defense triangle is prominent between the 6 and 7.
It was urged that every bomb shelter had a transistor radio and a good supply of batteries was on hand so that citizens could get important information while they waited for the fallout to settle.
The Civil Defense frequencies were 640 and 1240 AM. In the event of a nuclear attack only these two frequencies would continue to broadcast. Everything you needed to know about surviving would be heard there I guess.....I wonder if ther would have been commercials? :)
This radio doesn't get as much respect as it's cousin the 6TP-309 (deep vee). Too bad, it's a clean, symetrical classy design. It came in ivory, grey and black.
Have a look at the "deep vee" below for comparison.....
This is Tanya van Graan - you may have seen in her in one of the Starship Troopers sequels.
Toshiba announces details of new offices, call and service centres (and says it is now number three notebook brand, but wants to be number two) at a glittering gala in mid-winter.
Video here (includes Pixie Bennett of Idols fame performing).
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Probably better with B l a c k M a g i c
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My first PC, a Toshiba T1850 laptop (from 1992). Intel 386SX (added a Cyrix 387 co-processor), 4MB RAM, 80MB HDD, LCD with a resolution of 640x480 pixels and 16 shades of gray. It originally ran Windows 3.1.
Both the floppy drive and hard disk died.
Not the most desirable Toshiba, however finding a radio with the original box, accessories and paperwork add to it's appeal and value.
Perhaps one of the finest transistor radio designs ever.
Nicknamed the "deep vee" due to the massive chevron that frames the tuning window. Wow! Late 50's.
Toshiba produced some of the finest looking devices during the "golden age" of transistor radios (1956-63).
I have two examples of this radio re-branded as a "Seabreeze" for the Canadian market. One is ivory and the other has this same black cabinet.
The suggested retail price for the 6TP-309 was $37.95