Realistic CTR-73 Cassette Recorder Speaker Portable AC/DC Power NEW Tapes

greetings everyone today on the bench i have a box to take a look at i have a couple more of those amplifiers to review and we'll take a little break and look at this realistic portable cassette recorder of course realistic being a radio shack brand ctr 41 some of the features here a buck 50. so i have to wonder if this thing's going to work or not let's pop it open here so we have a pretty good condition looking cassette recorder looking this up in the catalogs it was available from 77 or was it 78 all the way through 1982 so it was in the lineup for a while this was the nicest recorder that radio shack carried of this style i think they call this a shoebox style recorder they had some other designs but this was the top model of this style let's see here it has a tape counter condenser microphone volume and tone switch the power options there and the auxiliary end along with the ear an