One of the last "still cool" transistors made by Sony before its design department opted for the bland and boring high-design motifs which would characterize all Sony products up through the '70s...

(But then it's never too late to change one's ways: By the mid-eighties Sony had begun putting color and "styling" back into some of its product designs, culminating in the late '90s with its sleek and beautiful lavender-colored line of Vaio computers released in a pre-iMac era when all other manufacturers, including Apple, were still offering pretty much only two cabinet colors: black, and "cooked oatmeal" ... )