Sixty years ago, if you were in the market for a transistor radio, and you had a little bit of mechanical aptitude, you couldn’t really go wrong getting this kit from General Electric. It was a kit, but the hard work, namely the construction of the individual circuit boards, had already been done at the factory. You just had to snip a few wires, and do a little bit of soldering, assembling, and gluing. In less than an hour, you would have a good five-transistor radio.

The kit was available from electronics suppliers, and this ad appeared in the December 1963 issue of Popular Mechanics.