I got mine when it first came out...1981, when I got my STRAT. That's
quite a few years...and it was $189 at 30% Off MSRP! Extrapolate to today's dollar... yikes. Scholz Resarch & Development. 'Patent Pending' on the back, folding headphones...I never got the ac adapter, but 8 AA's last a good while:
Belt buckle clip on the back, all right...
Bewtween that little Gain knob in the upper right of the back, and this panel...
...not a clear pic, sorry... a guitar and a stereo input for whatever you wanted to jam or mix with...walkman, keyboard... 2 headphone (or DI) outs, slide switches for 2 types of clean, 2 levels of distortion, preset chorus/echo (slap echo). 2 output 'volume' levels (to attenuate the line out signal to a board) ...and artful use of the vol & tone pots on your guitar...not much you can't do with it...oh, yeah, with an LP or the like, the TS sound....but working it, it does a whole lot more.
I only regret not getting his BassMan when it came out a year later.
Yes, Scholz sold out SRD to Dunlop, not sure how long ago... and they've made Rockmans for quite some time...maybe 15 years or more...not even close to the original, and that's probably why they go for less than 1/2 of what the original did...extrapolate that backwards, and they probably would've cost about $25 in '81.