From the Motorola Archive: The Motorola Changeabout
The enormous folder of images we stole off Motorola’s press site when it was stupid enough to believe the lies we told about being proper journalists continues to deliver the goods, with this – the Motorola Changeabout.
How we love those fantastic diagrams of a lady being impressed by a man’s choice of music. That is not what the wife looks like when we insist on playing ‘Full On Mask Hysteria’ or Destroyer.net to help pass the morning.
It only really plays in two places, then, as we’re still not a world of boat owners.
filed in PROMOTIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY on Feb.01, 2010
February 1st, 2010 on 4:47 pm
I own a boat. It’s called the HRT Pam Ferris.
February 1st, 2010 on 4:52 pm
Boat owner here too. Perhaps idiot, your non-boat owner status is what is holding you back.
I would use this on a boat, with a goat, in the park and yes, I would use this in the dark. Odd that they brag about lights in the first paragraph. Was that a breakthrough 360 move back then?
February 2nd, 2010 on 8:59 am
I used to be a boat owner too, but it burned in an ‘unfortunate fire’ at a French boat yard that I assume was an insurance job. I was miserable about it for months. It wasn’t a grand boat, but it was fast, agile and had often kept me from drowning.
I wouldn’t have fitted this cassette deck to it. It would’ve got soaked and completely ruined.
February 2nd, 2010 on 9:30 am
My dad used to own a boat. I haven’t managed to graduate to boat ownership yet. I’m destined to be part of the generation whose parents were better off then them.
February 2nd, 2010 on 9:31 am
If I did own a boat, I don’t think I’d bother with one of these anymore – I’d probably go with something based around mp3 technology. Wonder if Roman Abramovich has one on his boat.
February 2nd, 2010 on 10:41 am
I dont’t own a boat. I had a go on a pedalo in Eirias Park once, but that didn’t have a cassette deck.
February 2nd, 2010 on 11:36 am
Like most others here, it would seem, I used to have a boat too, but I think my parents threw it out when I grew up. Not only would this not have fitted in it, but even if it had I don’t think my parents would have allowed me to play with my boat in the bath anymore if it I’d fitted a stereo to it, for fear of electrocution.
February 2nd, 2010 on 11:44 am
Mrs Slagg had a rowing boat (which was useful, given that Familjen Slagg live on an island) but she sold it before I could fit the 8-track…. Which caused some Anglo-Swedish discord. However, due to global warming, the sea is now frozen over and, every day, richer people than us are out there on the ice, hacking away with pickaxes to keep their nautical pride and joy from being crushed.
So this boat owning can be a doubled edge sword of mixed metaphors. Despite being a fanny magnet.
February 2nd, 2010 on 12:39 pm
Neither I, nor any of my family, friends or anyone I have ever met, have ever owned, rented, borrowed, been in, or heard of, a boat.
February 2nd, 2010 on 4:45 pm
I’ve got a canoe…. It should fit in, if I jam it between the mannequin’s head and the Collecovision steering wheel.