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Many thanks to John Harper (AE5X)<\/a> who shares the following in reply to our post about transistor radios<\/a>:<\/p>\n Attached is a pic of a like-new transistor radio from 1967 [see above].<\/p>\n Remember the days when they bragged about how many transistors a gadget contained?! Sort of like bragging about RAM or clock speed today I guess.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n That’s a cute little Arvin radio, John!<\/p>\n You’re right, too–radio manufacturers used to boast transistor compliment like nothing else. Crosley, Zenith and RCA did the same thing–boasting tube\/valve numbers–in their 1930s consoles\u00a0as well. Thanks for sharing the photo of your pocket radio!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Many thanks to John Harper (AE5X) who shares the following in reply to our post about transistor radios: Attached is a pic of a like-new transistor radio from 1967 [see above]. Remember the days when they bragged about how many transistors a gadget contained?! Sort of like bragging about RAM or clock speed today I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[373,3781,3,3196,26],"tags":[1298,5417,1297,3857],"class_list":["post-20915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-am","category-fm","category-news","category-portable-radio","category-radios","tag-ae5x","tag-arvin-model-68r05","tag-john-harper","tag-transistor-radios"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-5rl","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20994,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/garys-arvin-model-61r35-brings-back-memories\/","url_meta":{"origin":20915,"position":0},"title":"Gary’s Arvin Model 61R35 brings back memories","author":"Thomas","date":"September 1, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Gary Wise (W4EEY), who shares the following guest post: It's funny how much we radio folks share in common. 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