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tse
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So I'm looking at an old photo album and find this picture of my nephew and off to the right my home theater projector from 1986. Look in the background and you can see the Sears stereo playback VCR that I payed $800 for. Cool stuff back then.
Scott
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Curt Palme
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I'd recognize that AquaRay anywhere...
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overclkr
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Man you were the SHITE if you had a stereo VCR back in the day 
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AnalogRocks
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I wasn't the shite. I had Mono.
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DB Cooper
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Yeah don't ask what I paid for my JVC stero and Hi-Fi VCRs back in the day!
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macgyver655
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| AnalogRocks wrote: | | I wasn't the shite. I had Mono. |
Isn't that a kissing disease?? 
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Spanky Ham
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I didn't even have a VCR until 1989.
Did the nephew inherit the pj?
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macgyver655
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I bought my first vcr in 1984. RCA, I think I paid a grand for it.
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tse
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| Spanky Ham wrote: | I didn't even have a VCR until 1989.
Did the nephew inherit the pj? |
Nope. I sold the projector back to the founder of ESP for $1250. He had started another company named Chromalux and was modifying ARays to scan up to 64kHz. That was probably about 1988. How much is $1250 in 1988 dollars, now?
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overclkr
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I knew there was a reason why I liked your lamb, I mean you
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Ile
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Didn't even know there is something bigger displays than 24" crt those days. 
My father bought SABA stereo vcr back in -84 when I was eight.
http://www.saba.pytalhost.com/1984-1/0032.jpg
http://www.saba.pytalhost.com/1984-1/0033.jpg
It was build like tank using JVC tape mechanism, had manual settings for audio input level and wireless remote that was pretty uncommon those days.
It served us about twenty years, reeling motor was chanced once about after 10 years service.
If I remember correct it cost something like 6300FIM that would be $2800 these days. 
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| Ile wrote: | Didn't even know there is something bigger displays than 24" crt those days.
My father bought SABA stereo vcr back in -84 when I was eight.
http://www.saba.pytalhost.com/1984-1/0032.jpg
http://www.saba.pytalhost.com/1984-1/0033.jpg
It was build like tank using JVC tape mechanism, had manual settings for audio input level and wireless remote that was pretty uncommon those days.
It served us about twenty years, reeling motor was chanced once about after 10 years service.
If I remember correct it cost something like 6300FIM that would be $2800 these days. |
my parents bought a sharp vcr for fl2000,--/fl2200,--in 84 i think, and i was 8 back then too .
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Best decision I made was not to spend $2700 (in 2011 money) for a Sony superbeta VCR. It was the one with the cool slide out drawer mechanism. I did drop $3600 on a Mac SE.... doh. How times have changed.
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AnalogRocks
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| HaydnG90 wrote: | | Best decision I made was not to spend $2700 (in 2011 money) for a Sony superbeta VCR. It was the one with the cool slide out drawer mechanism. I did drop $3600 on a Mac SE.... doh. How times have changed. |
Sony SLHF-700 AWESUM Betamax!
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Curt Palme
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Believe it or not, I grew up in a home with no TV. We read as kids. The neighbor gave me an old 12" B/W Admiral TV for me to play with. Since we didn't have cable, and were up against a mountain, antenna reception sucked bigtime.
That was in 1979, I was in grade 10. Working on that little set though got me hooked on repairing TVs, and look at the trouble that THAT got me into!
Here's the latest recycler find. A mint Nak 700 cassette deck. $10 cost, $157 selling price on eBay. 1/2 hour worth of testing and cleaning.
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| AnalogRocks wrote: | | HaydnG90 wrote: | | Best decision I made was not to spend $2700 (in 2011 money) for a Sony superbeta VCR. It was the one with the cool slide out drawer mechanism. I did drop $3600 on a Mac SE.... doh. How times have changed. |
Sony SLHF-700 AWESUM Betamax! |
Actually it was its big brother the even more AWESOME SLHF-950
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MikeEby
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| macgyver655 wrote: | | I bought my first vcr in 1984. RCA, I think I paid a grand for it. |
I can top that...I bought one of these babies when I was a Senior in high school 1975, it was only black and white but instant home movies and video playback man was that cool. I'm pretty sure the unit is still at my folks house.
By 1981 I had a top load VCR, it was mono it had click tuners.
I think I bought a HiFi VHS by 1986....I used it a lot for making audio tapes...It had really decent frequency response.
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