Nice unit. Would have been great for people with low vision with it's simple and very tactile layout. In fact, I'm sure that why it has the cassette in tab. Sony have always been considerate of people with visual impairments, like me. Often the play button will have a tactile dot or arrow that you can feel and the other buttons would be different sizes/shapes as in this example.
The yellow button on the cassette door is almost certainly for visually impaired people - they can use their fingers to "see" if there's a cassette in there already. The whole thing feels like it's designed with those people in mind. Slow playback is for audio books for the blind. The "easy listening" feature is intended to make it easier to hear voices for someone who can't watch TV, and relies on the radio more.
I did wonder about that, though on its own I didn’t think it would help much. The controls are quite big which would assist, but there isn’t much tactile difference between them.
✅ ~ yes, that ‘mono’ boombox has possibly been designed for the “blind” = only has 1 speaker ~ most don’t mind it not being stereo and some will leave it on to use as a sound beacon to know what room they are in, as for it not being very tactical; again they [the blind] will get instructions printed in braille and stroke the unit to feel the controls and would stick raised symbols on the cassette recorder keys and braille stickers on the other parts to feel what they are.
almost certainly designed for visually impaired people with that cassette in thing , large knobs, well spaced tape controls, dial light, and the flip scale, so only one band visible at a time
P/s after your video i found a good one of these and it came earlier in the week. I cleaned it up , some of the buttons on the cassette have gone a bit tacky as the plastic has de graded , but all in all it works well , radio cassette the lot.Thinking more about it may be it was aimed at visually impaired people. The button on the tape door, the flexible antenna so you cant hurt your eye if you cant see if its up and the fixed carrying handle always were you expect it to be . I have a lot of vintage radios but this one has no crackle on the pots whatsoever the controls for the tape are a pleasure to use. Wounder how much these were when new ? (:
I found the rubberised buttons a bit sticky to touch as well, but didn’t want to scrub them much in case the legends rubbed off. It is a really good set though and feels like it’s built to last.
Nice radio. 👍
Very nice 👍
Nice unit. Would have been great for people with low vision with it's simple and very tactile layout. In fact, I'm sure that why it has the cassette in tab. Sony have always been considerate of people with visual impairments, like me. Often the play button will have a tactile dot or arrow that you can feel and the other buttons would be different sizes/shapes as in this example.
The yellow button on the cassette door is almost certainly for visually impaired people - they can use their fingers to "see" if there's a cassette in there already. The whole thing feels like it's designed with those people in mind. Slow playback is for audio books for the blind. The "easy listening" feature is intended to make it easier to hear voices for someone who can't watch TV, and relies on the radio more.
I did wonder about that, though on its own I didn’t think it would help much. The controls are quite big which would assist, but there isn’t much tactile difference between them.
✅ ~ yes, that ‘mono’ boombox has possibly been designed for the “blind” = only has 1 speaker ~ most don’t mind it not being stereo and some will leave it on to use as a sound beacon to know what room they are in, as for it not being very tactical; again they [the blind] will get instructions printed in braille and stroke the unit to feel the controls and would stick raised symbols on the cassette recorder keys and braille stickers on the other parts to feel what they are.
almost certainly designed for visually impaired people with that cassette in thing , large knobs, well spaced tape controls, dial light, and the flip scale, so only one band visible at a time
On good form tonight! An unfocused group! 😂
P/s after your video i found a good one of these and it came earlier in the week. I cleaned it up , some of the buttons on the cassette have gone a bit tacky as the plastic has de graded , but all in all it works well , radio cassette the lot.Thinking more about it may be it was aimed at visually impaired people. The button on the tape door, the flexible antenna so you cant hurt your eye if you cant see if its up and the fixed carrying handle always were you expect it to be .
I have a lot of vintage radios but this one has no crackle on the pots whatsoever the controls for the tape are a pleasure to use.
Wounder how much these were when new ?
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I found the rubberised buttons a bit sticky to touch as well, but didn’t want to scrub them much in case the legends rubbed off. It is a really good set though and feels like it’s built to last.
@@neilsradios Yes same here just left them . Cleaned up the rest with trusty Mr Sheen (:
Wow really like this (:
Possibly the tape in button may be for people who are blind ?
Good looking set that..odd features though