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JVC portable radio and cassette recorder/player
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Title:
JVC portable radio and cassette recorder/player
NFSA ID
418831
Year
1987
Community radio first went to air in the early 1970s and, by the 1980s, around 50 community radio stations were broadcasting across Australia.
You could listen back on stereo systems like this JVC component system PVC-V55 from 1987. These types of systems integrated radio receivers with cassette recording and playback, making it easy to tape directly off air.
The perfect mixtape was crafted through both luck and skill: hitting record right at the top of a song, and perhaps even taping your own radio presenter-like spoken introductions.
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.