[Today’s run: 2 miles with wife and dog]
We were at an estate sale about a week ago and picked up this old transistor radio for a buck.
Whoever owned this thing never listened to it under the covers at night when they were supposed to be asleep. Or if they did, they somehow did it with gloves on. It doesn’t look like it’s ever been used.
I put some batteries in it (2-AAs) and it works fine.
We looked up the model number (P915E) on the googleplex and saw that a schematic is available and saw pictures of this very thing. I believe the date we were seeing was 1965, something like that.
In that day they always advertised how many transistors were in the box. Kind of like saying how many “jewels” were in a watch. Transistors are kinda/sorta equal to the number of tubes in a tube radio and an 8-tube radio would have been a low-end model but perfectly useful for just broadcast AM.
Superheterodyne, 455kHz intermediate frequency, three stages of audio amplification to drive a small speaker. And it has a headphone jack.
