Nostalgia! My mom bought me one of these for good grades when I was 11-years-old. I was destined to work in engineering as I blew my brothers and friends away by figuring out how to hook up our NES to it and play games, what then seemed remotely, in our upstairs bedroom. I eventually lost or blew up the AC power supply adapter which led me to use the costly D battery option. This led to one of my first engineering observations as a kid. The TV side of the unit consumed much more power than the radio. A fresh set of D batteries would last maybe 15 hours on the TV side and shut down. However, I listened to the radio on those same set of batteries for months. Thus, the power consumption of radios is minuscule in the world of electronics.I found the Panasonic portable TV pictured at a thrift store, in new condition. I had not seen nor really though of the TV in nearly 20 years. It instantly took me back.
I paid $10 for it.
Although I wondered how and if it would work with the new digital antenna system. The kid engineer in me went back to work. I hooked a digital converter box from one of our old TVs and, BAM!, channels! The digital converter box had a remote, so not only did I have digital TV on my portable TV from the 80s, but I also now could surf channels easily.
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