50 years ago this year, in the September 14th 1960 edition of Electronics Weekly, there was a headline: 'World's Largest Stereo Network From Japan'.
The story opens:
' An elaborate stereophonic system specially designed for outdoor performances and the biggest of its kind in the world, has been developed by Toshiba of Tokyo'.
'The frequency range is 40 to 10,000 cycles.'
The story explains that the system has speakers for low, medium and high frequencies and goes on to say:
'The low frequency speaker is 19½feet high, 8¾ feet wide and 13½ feet deep. It weighs two and a half tons.'
'The total output of the unit is 440 watts', concludes the story.
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