| Title: | Welcome to the CD Notes Conference |
| Notice: | Welcome to COOKIE |
| Moderator: | COOKIE::ROLLOW |
| Created: | Mon Feb 17 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Mar 03 1989 |
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I was in Jordan Marsh at Pheasant Lane in Nashua on Saturday. They have two floor sample portables on sale - one Sony D55 and one Toshiba XR-P9. These are both history, but the prices seemed right and are negotiable. The Toshiba was bigger than I would have liked, but given the Sony reputation, I decided to steer clear of the D55. The Toshiba was $229 and would make quite a nice home unit (with its remote). It will do the trick for me on those long, long plane rides in my future, and the price was better than anything I'll find Downunder.
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| 631.1 | A little too pricey! | MQFSV1::LEDOUX | This space left blank intentionally | Wed Feb 04 1987 07:21 | 24 |
At $227.00, I beleive that it's abit too high for a floor model. Three weeks ago at Fretter (Woburn) I bought the same unit XRP9r brand NEW for $187.00 (+ 5%) = $197.00. It is a good little unit, but I do have a question. The unit I got seems to have an optional DC jack at the back of the battery pack missing. The sqare hole is covered with a plastic cover. So I opened the unit and found out that there is a little PC board in there and a place to solder a jack. What I did finnaly, I bought a 9V DC power adapter (Radio shack) with a male female Jack, soldered it to the battery wires, put some rechargeable batteries (added a diode/resistor) for protection. So it does work fine, now I can leave the "triangular power sup" at home and carry the battery pack/ power supply at the office. My question is, Does anybody saw units with the plug installed ? If so, did it came with a DC adap/plug that would fit on the battery pack.? Vince. | |||||
| 631.2 | COVERT::COVERT | John R. Covert | Wed Feb 04 1987 22:47 | 4 | |
I saw a Toshiba portable (don't know what model) for $169 at Instant Replay in Waltham. /john | |||||