Summary
- A Youtuber called Techmoan reminisces on a radio he owned as a child, a Casio RD-10 ‘card radio’
- It was cheaply made and had cost him just £5 when he bought it as a child, but he loved it at the time
- The radio was usable only with a special earbud which also served as the antenna and on/off switch
- It ran on a single coin cell, which was unusual at the time, and the display was a strange wiggly LED
- Casio also made versions with AM radio, or with a calculator, both of which were a little chunkier
- There was even a stereo version, but the sound quality on all these devices was not great.
- He shows a modern reproduction (of sorts) which has AM, FM and Bluetooth, but is larger and has poorer sound.
By Al Williams
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