• Country
• Japan

• Manufacturer / Brand
• Sony Corporation; Tokyo

• Year
• 1969/1970

• Category
• Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner

• Radiomuseum.org ID
• 27592

• Number of Transistors
• 8

• Semiconductors

• Main principle
• Superheterodyne (common)

• Wave bands
• Broadcast (BC) and FM or UHF.

• Power type and voltage
• Alternating Current supply (AC) / 220 Volt

• Loudspeaker
• Permanent Magnet Dynamic (PDyn) Loudspeaker (moving coil) / Ø 9 cm = 3.5 inch

• Power out
• 0.85 W (unknown quality)

• Material
• Plastics (no bakelite or catalin)

• from Radiomuseum.org
• Model: Digimatic 8 FC-59 W - Sony Corporation; Tokyo

• Shape
• Tablemodel with Clock ((Alarm-) Clock Radio).

• Dimensions (WHD)
• 295 x 100 x 130 mm / 11.6 x 3.9 x 5.1 inch

• Notes
• EE: Sony Digimatic 8FC-59W ist ein sehr frühes Modell mit Klappziffern-Anzeige (Fallblatt-Zeitanzeige). 8FC-59W hat 8 Transistoren und 8 Dioden. Digitalanzeigen baut man später in Solid-State-Technik, statt mit Mechanik, wobei sich verschiedene Techniken abwechselten, doch die 70er Jahre sind von diesen mechanischen Anzeigen geprägt, wo nicht eine normale Uhr vorgezogen wurde.
  Vertrieb in D über ELAC.
  
  The Sony Digimatic 8FC-59W is one of the first alarm clock radios with "Flip-Mechanisme", "Folding Numbers" or "Drop Sheet Time Indicator". In 1965 "Cifra 3" with the same system was used as a simple flip-clock, built in Italy - but there are also probably earlier clocks since the system as such was already used many years before.

• Price in first year of sale
• 238.00 DM

• External source of data
• erb

• Source of data
• Handbuch VDRG 1969/1970

• Other Models

• Here you find 3952 models, 3811 with images and 954 with schematics for wireless sets etc. In French: TSF for Télégraphie sans fil.
  All listed radios etc. from Sony Corporation; Tokyo