"David Nebenzahl" wrote in message
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Which implies that, at least sometime in the past, there were those who
repaired those radios. Did they? I remember when those things appeared on
the market, and I always thought of them as disposable items. Did people
actually take them in to be fixed?

The first Sony shirt pocket (just) sized one cost me more than a week's
wages - at wholesale! I repaired them for a few years until I moved on to
other things.