![]() It's interesting to me that the wooden cased (8FC-69) Sony's actually came out after the Digital24 - they look older to me by nature of the real wood. This seems to have been primarily a Japanese brand name because it seems to have morphed to "Digimatic" once it came to the USA. I've started noticing that there are other varieties of the Digital24s out there. But in any event I liked the image they included. In the 1980s and 1990s, a clock radio would have vied with underwear as the most boring gift. But over the decades, there has hardly been a duller category of consumer electronics. At one point, the company’s clock-radio resided in a third of American homes, Sony says. There were other digital clock radios, but it was one of the most coveted. It was 1968 and the Sony Dream Machine, model 8FC-59, suddenly upgraded the real estate next to the bed. Instead of the hands of the analog dial, here were numbers, straightforward and direct, that flipped - the glowing came later - to tell us a new era in consumer electronics had arrived. No, it might have been the little bedside box soothing us to sleep at night and jolting us awake in the morning: the digital alarm clock radio. Most Americans did not wake up to the new era by reading ads for do-it-yourself Heathkit computers in Popular Mechanics magazine. The internet breathes new life into the clock radioįOR many people, the dawn of the digital age - or at least the first recognition of its advent - probably did not come with utility bills on punch cards warning never to fold, spindle or mutilate. It sold for $3.25 plus shipping (ouch).įor some reason the New York Times online edition wrote an article ![]() He started at $1500.00 and eventually got down to $900 on his blog before he did a no reserve ebay auction. I recall about that time there was a an ebay seller found a 8FC-59WA - (actually a Sony Digimatic) and asserted that it was "the world's first." He got pretty mad when I advised him that he was wrong. TOKYO THRIFT SPECIAL: ‘IT’S A SONY’ EXHIBIT SHOWS OFF DECADES OF DECADENT DESIGN To The Verge (a technology review website/company) on a very cool 2016 "Toyko Thrift" column: The world's first digital clock radio, nicknamed "Digital 24." Sony 8FC-59 Product Design 8FC-59 |1968| World's first digital clock radio AKA digital 24 Code: assertion that the Sony Digital24 was the first digital clock radio is all over the internet.
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