Aiwa CS-880 owners
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skippy1969
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kraftmatic
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kraftmatic said:
I wonder if there actually was a CS-880 with that serial number? 
If so, and the serial numbers were sequential, that means there were at least 20,309,181 manufactured!
Could it be true that 20.3 million CS-880s rolled off Aiwa's assembly lines?
Probably not, but even if the first serial number was 10000000, that's still 10.3 million CS-880s.
Probably a more accurate way to look at it is to subtract the lowest number from the highest number here:
20309181 - 10326152 = 9,983,029
Wow! That's still almost 10 million CS-880s, so maybe the first serial number was 10000000.Or maybe the serial numbers included all Aiwa boxes.
Does anyone have a serial number from a TPR 950 or 990? If it's between 20309181 and 10326152, that's a pretty good indication that the serial numbers spanned all Aiwa models. Still, 10 million Aiwa boxes manufactured is quite remarkable.
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Re: serial numbers. Check out this:
http://www.thevintageknob.org/tvk_talk/viewtopic.php?f=1510&t=2588
No boomboxes, but a great piece of sleuthing nonetheless.
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http://www.thevintageknob.org/tvk_talk/viewtopic.php?f=1510&t=2588
No boomboxes, but a great piece of sleuthing nonetheless.
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With Hisrudeness' serial number, the unit total is now:
20309181 - 10206063 = 10,103,118
10.1 million Aiwa boxes produced!
More on Aiwa production history from http://www.thevintageknob.org/tvk_talk/viewtopic.php?f=1510&t=2395
Aiwa
Built all on its own before being bought at 52% by Sony in 1969, the remaining 48% passing on to Sony in 2002.
Between 1969 and 2002 Aiwa remained fully independent (like Victor vs. Matsushita) even if marketing and product planning was done in direct and close relation with Sony so as to avoid overlapping lineups, products and features. Aiwa and Sony shared some manufacturing but that was almost never reflected in their respective T-tags.
If parts-sharing between Sony's TCD-D10 series and Aiwa's HD-X7000 series is obvious (and that's just one example), I have found so far only two Aiwa T-tags on Sony products :
the TC-W30 which bears Aiwa's early 1980s staple front design and its very recognizable 1960s logo as T-tag.
the 1984 CDP-3000 broadcast CD player (but not the CDS- remote and CDF- fader unit which were made at Sony's).
Aiwa also built for others outside of Sony's duet strategy : Onkyo (k7 recorders), BASF, Metz, Uher and Wega which all rebadged the "22" (My Pace) system between 1978 and 1982. Unlike the others, the Wega version was previsible since Wega was also fully owned by... Sony.
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20309181 - 10206063 = 10,103,118
10.1 million Aiwa boxes produced!
More on Aiwa production history from http://www.thevintageknob.org/tvk_talk/viewtopic.php?f=1510&t=2395
Aiwa
Built all on its own before being bought at 52% by Sony in 1969, the remaining 48% passing on to Sony in 2002.
Between 1969 and 2002 Aiwa remained fully independent (like Victor vs. Matsushita) even if marketing and product planning was done in direct and close relation with Sony so as to avoid overlapping lineups, products and features. Aiwa and Sony shared some manufacturing but that was almost never reflected in their respective T-tags.
If parts-sharing between Sony's TCD-D10 series and Aiwa's HD-X7000 series is obvious (and that's just one example), I have found so far only two Aiwa T-tags on Sony products :
the TC-W30 which bears Aiwa's early 1980s staple front design and its very recognizable 1960s logo as T-tag.
the 1984 CDP-3000 broadcast CD player (but not the CDS- remote and CDF- fader unit which were made at Sony's).
Aiwa also built for others outside of Sony's duet strategy : Onkyo (k7 recorders), BASF, Metz, Uher and Wega which all rebadged the "22" (My Pace) system between 1978 and 1982. Unlike the others, the Wega version was previsible since Wega was also fully owned by... Sony.
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