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Old 24th Sep 2013, 8:06 am   #13
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Default Re: Perdio Portarama Dual Standard

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Originally Posted by Heatercathodeshort View Post
Half price! How did Perdio expect to sell what looks like a 'kit set' for £100, a lot of money in 1965.
A dual standard 9" Sony set was 85 gns in 1965, so they were in the right area. The Sony was near on half the size though, and probably ten times as reliable. I did have a Portarama 3 once, there were lots of odd things about it. One of these was that the UHF tuner worked on the opposite polarity to the rest of the set and so had to be isolated with plastic nuts an bolts, an accident waiting to happen I thought.
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