Panasonic RX-5150

Introduced in 1982 this is the Panasonic RX-5150 also known as the Disco 50. It had a fairly standard boombox design with some nice chrome trim rings around the speaker grills and weighed in at around 13 pounds so it wasn't an exceptionally large boombox. It had a list price of $249.95. It featured:

Two 6 1/2 inch woofers and two 1 1/4 inch tweeters
Soft Touch Controls
Ambience Stereo
7 Stage LED Meter
Rewind Auto-Play
Tape Program Sensor (TPS)
Dual Voltage
Loudness

The Panasonic RX-5150 was also featured in the 1982 movie The Thing by John Carpenter. The character "Nauls" was always skating around on roller skates and listening to his RX-5150 with the volume too high. A definite influence from the urban disco era.

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