@Newmy Looks gorgeous. Love the physical knobs and switches too.

@Newmy New Old Stock in the wild!

@Newmy Baseball on the radio is still a surprisingly pleasant experience. 👍🏽

@Newmy Very nice!

@Newmy jealous!

@Newmy Wow, nice looking unit.

@Newmy Well okay, but of course most old radios that just look like that do not work (and did not work they say the box was first opened).

.....Also, radios released today DO work, and DO NOT "require pairing" or WTF-ever.

The general idea, the reason you posted this, having nothing to do with musical radios, is of course true.

This is a very bad example.

@Newmy but you can only listen to the same 40 songs from 10+ years ago on repeat and they keep telling you that these are the hits and you like them.

@Newmy

No surveilance.

@Newmy The Frequency movie irl... 😵

@Newmy Me: "I love old vintage tech like that, so cool!"

Also me: "Wait, that radio is only 4 years older than I am." 😮

@Newmy what no microtransactions?

@Newmy Beware of those radios, you wil still get ads and in Canada, there is very little music left on the FM band, mostly ads and talking heads. In moving away from playing music to save money, the radio stations opened the doors to Internet-based music.

@Newmy It's beautiful. Now slightly impaired in markets where FM stations couldn't leave well enough alone and are moving to "HD" because everything needs to be HD. Even tho HD has smaller range so I can no longer receive a local station at my house even with an "HD" radio.

@Newmy

Some millennial somewhere: "What are those round things on the right?"

You: "Those are knobs for adjusting volume and other things!"

Same millennial: "What are knobs?"

@Newmy@writing.exchange manual ad-blocker

@Newmy

What witch craft do you have there! ... Giggles

Hugz & xXx

@Newmy

Whippersnappers...😉

@Newmy does it have Spotify?

@Newmy Awesome radio. Amazing if it still works -- a lot can happen to capacitors in there over the years.

@Newmy There is something sweetly naive about that radio. Maybe it should just go back to sleep and dream.

@Newmy I can hear this pic and it sounds like cardinals baseball

@Newmy What a thing of design beauty! 📻 This was the GE back before Jack Welsh destroyed it.

https://www.npr.org/2022/06/01/1101505691/short-term-profits-and-long-term-consequences-did-jack-welch-break-capitalism

@Newmy but surely it needed a firmware upgrade and an account subscription set up and confirmed first?

@Newmy amazing

@Newmy

Congratulations on opening and enjoying it, and not immediately rushing to eBay to see how much one sells New in Box. :ablobhop:

@Newmy Ha, had many of those starting with a “transistor radio” from Japan to listen to baseball games under the covers in my childhood room in Miami. Radio so full of commercials now I only listen to podcasts 🙁

@Newmy
I have a little battery transistor radio that I keep so that if the whole internet and all the electrical grid goes down I can find out why.

@Newmy

Loudness -> ON 🤘🏽

@Newmy The procedure for changing the volume: fiddle about with the top knob until you find somewhere you like (you will get instant feedback).

@Newmy How interesting! Is the speaker cover on the left purely aesthetic? Or is it padded / cushioned in some way?

@Newmy I strongly suggest not touching that shaped foam speaker covering. While it'll probably be somewhat preserved by never being unpacked and exposed to light, it's nevertheless almost certainly brittle by now and might crumble and disintegrate with any handling.

(Yes, I once had speakers of that era with that kind of facing. And that was in fact their fate, after a lot less than 40 years.)

@Newmy

WOW !!!

@Newmy@writing.exchange Old School iz best school.

@Newmy Dear God, YES! When the grands say "You just open then app, then you..." I dream of the days when you just plugged it in, turned the dial, and it worked.

@Newmy wow, what a find.

@Newmy

@Newmy awesome

@Newmy absolutely gorgeous.

@Newmy What a beauty! ❤️

@Newmy And it has knobs. KNOBS I SAY!

@Newmy What great design in this! It’s attractive, functional and the knobs are so gorgeous

@Newmy After the internet comes crashing down by mega hackers in another hostile country, that radio might be the only source of information, just like radio was a hundred years ago. Nighttime distance listening could be interesting.

@Newmy other than that weird speaker grill pattern, I love the design of this radio, it very much screams 1970s techy to me

@Newmy Oh wow! I'm in love. 💕

@Newmy How satisfying are those switches on a scale of 1-10?

@Newmy unfortunately it's 80% ads and nobody makes an adblocker for it.

@Newmy
Then came the newer wireless version
that he would have carried on his shoulder.

@Newmy this must be a total revelation

@Newmy from my perspective,they killed the radio with ads.

@Newmy

I hope you have lots of good local radio.

(Here in New Orleans we're well blessed with it.)

Happy listening!

#radio

@Newmy But... What kind of subscriptions does it include in the EULA?

@Newmy Beautiful!

@Newmy do you know what model it is? Should be on the back of the bottom. Have seen a lot of 60s or 70s GE radios but not that one before

@Newmy I'm envious of the kind of shape that's in!

@Newmy I hope the electrolytic caps haven't dried out and it still works.
I remember those old radios with Auto Frequency Control (AFC) that would try to center on the carrier. You only turned it off if you wanted to tune slightly off frequency to avoid adjacent channel interference.

@Newmy@writing.exchange god i love the 70s ge aesthetic

@Newmy there are simple radios today. Bought this on for my dad as he struggled with age. Just volume, tune, off/am/FM . It's a Sony, not even cheap (about 55€). Now my mom uses it in the kitchen and she likes it.

@Newmy

So pretty, too.

@Newmy this one receives sounds from Mars!

@Newmy No AI

@Newmy actually you need pairing. to the radio station via frequency

@Newmy
We have lost much of the simplicity devices once had.
I for one am not a fan of all this app/login/pairing/setup frenzy new devices come with.
It should be plug and play
The option to customize is nice to some extent... but this is now clouded with the "connected everywhere/anywhere" ethos.

@Newmy 😍

@Newmy and hiw us the dound?

@Newmy if you are selling, I'm buying 😍

@Newmy Wouldn’t it be nice if the tech industry focused on useful, lasting products for humans again?

@Newmy @nixCraft That is great. I suddenly realised 48 years ago was when I was a kid. In my mind 48 years ago is the 1940s. My grand parents generation.

@Newmy 🤩

@Newmy
Radio is awesome, because nobody can stop you transmitting, nobody can block you receiving. Check also the radio caroline story https://abcnews.go.com/International/radio-caroline-britains-pirate-radio-station-broadcasting-sea/story?id=110204908
@nixCraft

@Newmy @nixCraft And the radio can't be bricked because you didn't sign-up for a monthly subscription.'