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An ICF-C218S. A clock radio that is similar to the ICF-C318 with the Green LED Display, but it has a single alarm instead of a dual alarm. Same features as the ICF-C318, but it is a different design and almost as the same as the C318. It comes with two bands; FM and AM.
In 1989, a classic red Roberts radio appeared in a Martini TV advert, which revived interest in the product. [5] A replica of the 1950s radio was created and sold out in two limited runs. Public popularity led to the full reissue of the original design as the Revival in 1993 in original red colour, with various new colours and designs numbering ...
A mid-1940s alarm clock radio with AM radio stations only A typical 1980s clock radio featuring a digital clock/alarm and an analogue FM/MW/LW receiver. A clock radio is an alarm clock and radio receiver integrated in one device. [18] The clock may turn on the radio at a designated time to wake the user, and usually includes a buzzer alarm.
A modern LF radio-controlled clock. A radio clock or radio-controlled clock (RCC), and often colloquially (and incorrectly [1]) referred to as an "atomic clock", is a type of quartz clock or watch that is automatically synchronized to a time code transmitted by a radio transmitter connected to a time standard such as an atomic clock.
The Enhanced Digital Access Communication System (EDACS) is a radio communications protocol and product family invented in the General Electric Corporation in the mid 1980s. The rights were eventually bought by Harris Corporation , which eventually stopped manufacturing these devices in 2012, and ended all service in 2017.
John Francis Rider (1900–1985) was an American radio engineer best known as publisher and author of over 125 books for radio and television servicing. He founded John F. Rider Publisher Inc. and was responsible for annual volumes of the Perpetual Troubleshooter's Manual from 1931 to 1954.
Roberts wanted to design a new electronic calculator kit but his partners wanted out. Bob Zaller had already left MITS and Forrest Mims was out of the Air Force and wanted to become a full-time writer. Roberts bought his 3 partners out for $600 in cash and $350 in equipment. [21] (Roberts' four-year commitment to the Air Force ended in mid-1972.)
A flip clock (also known as a "flap clock") is an electromechanical, digital time keeping device with the time indicated by numbers that are sequentially revealed by a split-flap display. The study, collection and repair of flip clocks is termed horopalettology (from horology – the study and measurement of time and palette – and the Italian ...