![]() In terms of market, the USA and Canada had and still have a huge customer base for scanners.Įuropean sales were/are very small in comparison. Tooling for SMD wasnt cheap so only the "big boys" could afford the many millions of Yens & Dollars it costs but somehow GRE Inc were in there very early as well so I can only assume that this was a huge investment for GRE no doubt backed by US money from Radio Shack Inc. Sony brought SMD to the Philips Comapact Disk/digital audio party, the playstation came along using philips' compact disk as a media to store the games and the rest is history, this team of 2 consumer electronics giants were an unstoppable force in digital entertainment, and they continue to be at the very top of their "game". You could listen on the bus, train or walking ,An early form of podcast device if you like. The Walkman changed the way people listened to music and with the radio option,sports and current affairs. ![]() ![]() Built in motordrives, super relaible autofocus and smaller batteries became reality.The Surface Mount Device was here to stay and there was no turning back. the mains powered cassette radio was dead or as good as.ģ5mm Cameras made by Nikon and Canon were in a surface mount stratosphere right up there all on their own. The batteries were smaller and they lasted longer.Some walkman models had fancy light touch then called "fuzzy logic" controls. The cassette player shrunk significantly,seemingly overnight without anyone really noticing. Surface mount chip devices were used in these, sometimes bonded on to the ribbon cables and becoming part of the cable harness itself and sometimes SMD components were used in pcb sub boards around the unit. They were compact, portable and sounded great. Perhaps the most iconic devices created by smd technology was the Sony Walkman family of personal cassette and radio cassette players of the 1980s. Even today this is a commonplace but non the less amazing process to watch. The SMDs could be glue mounted on to pcb boards by machines or robots then the board pcb run through yet another machine and bath ound breaking. For example, A capacitor or resistor could be made 1/20th of the size of a regular (THT) one. They offered manufacturers the advantage of making their final products much smaller. In the early days of SMD production, Japan was the major player. It has top quality components which very interestingly are a mix of traditional/older THT (Through Hole Technology) mounted components and SMD (Surface Mount Devices) like the ones found in iphones and the like today. ![]() This model has great design and is much loved by airband fans due to its brilliant AM performance, no gaps coverage of both Civil and Military airband and beyond from 25mhz up to 1.3ghz. "The Pro-2006 is considered by many to be the best scanner ever produced in terms of sensitivity and selectivity." One of the golden greats of 1990s scanner radios the Realistic Pro-2006 was made for Radio Shack/Tandy by General Research Electronics Inc (GRE) Japan and designed and assembled in their factory in Chiba Prefecture. Realistic Pro-2006 Unit : B "experimental"
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