Australian Home Beautiful

THE CABLE BATTLE

What piece of home tech would you be willing to drop the equivalent of $1600 on? And we’re talking cash here – no credit cards, no Afterpay, no 24 months’ interest free. This was the prospect enticing consumers back in November 1957 when Australian firm AWA launched its first Transistor Seven radio.

The item – and those like it – was such a wonder that it soon picked up a generic,

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