Vintage clock/radios and my Soundesign 3834-A

As a child in Australia in the 1980s, I was always interested in technology including video games, computers, watches and audio/visual equipment.

In the early 1980s, when I was about 12, I went with my family for a holiday to the USA, and one of the things I wanted to get when I was there was an interesting clock/radio.

One of the first places we stopped at was New York City and it wasn't long before I convinced the family to look in some electronics stores and came across this most amazing clock/radio: the Soundesign 3834-A.

This looked like it belonged on a spacecraft, with many buttons and a sleep horizontal design with angled display for the time and tuner.

Unlike most clock/radios, this one also had a cassette recorder with built-in microphone.

I convinced my father to buy it and brought it back to Australia where we discovered that we needed an expensive USA to Australia (110V to 240V) power converter.

But once up and running, I loved this clock/radio for many years, although I can't recall whatever happened to it.

Note that the photos are not mine and are from a USA eBay listing.