And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I had a Canon unit with optional "Sound Shaper" that took the originally recorded stereo that was transmitted as a single band and then convert it back to stereo (a BS feature that was only good for live concerts and sit-coms that advertised as "IN STEREO"). You could record one show while watching another, like this ad said. I paid $650 for it. Ran that sucker to death, then bought a newer, better Sharp for $125. I still have the Sound Shaper; doesn't work with any other machine.
In the early 80's my dad bought himself a nice Luxman stereo system with a Denon rosewood turntable. Went back into the shop a few months later and they had the first Sony CD player...bought it, $800.
$600. But that was with a discount if you bought a membership at the video rental store. To be able to watch a movie at home, on demand, made you the coolest cat on the block. Good times.
that JR9000w went just north of $455.00 in late 1977 at the base exchange in homestead. a few years later, I thought of getting a similar one to tape mission one shuttle launch but ended up orbiting twenty five miles off shore monitoring the airspace. solid rocket booster exhaust trails left a remarkable radar return on the scopes and the cessnas and pipers were out like a swarm of locusts over a fresh crop of corn.
Back in the '80's a buddy's mom worked at the Avon Corporation in KC. They had a new VCR, very similar to the one advertised, and it didn't work. Avon was just going to throw it away but my buddy's mom asked if she could have it. They gave it to her, free, no strings attached. My pal adjusted the heads and it worked fine. Still works 40 years later, he tells me.
I had a Canon unit with optional "Sound Shaper" that took the originally recorded stereo that was transmitted as a single band and then convert it back to stereo (a BS feature that was only good for live concerts and sit-coms that advertised as "IN STEREO"). You could record one show while watching another, like this ad said. I paid $650 for it. Ran that sucker to death, then bought a newer, better Sharp for $125. I still have the Sound Shaper; doesn't work with any other machine.
ReplyDeleteTop loaders were the best. VHS of course.
ReplyDeleteIn the early 80's my dad bought himself a nice Luxman stereo system with a Denon rosewood turntable. Went back into the shop a few months later and they had the first Sony CD player...bought it, $800.
ReplyDelete$600. But that was with a discount if you bought a membership at the video rental store. To be able to watch a movie at home, on demand, made you the coolest cat on the block. Good times.
ReplyDeleteBack then, a new VHS cost in the neighborhood of $2000. We had one. Weighed about 50 pounds.
ReplyDeleteNotice the demographics?
ReplyDeletethat JR9000w went just north of $455.00 in late 1977 at the base exchange in homestead. a few years later, I thought of getting a similar one to tape mission one shuttle launch but ended up orbiting twenty five miles off shore monitoring the airspace. solid rocket booster exhaust trails left a remarkable radar return on the scopes and the cessnas and pipers were out like a swarm of locusts over a fresh crop of corn.
ReplyDeleteTo all the commenters above: So What? Things were crap then, shit now.
ReplyDeleteBack in the '80's a buddy's mom worked at the Avon Corporation in KC. They had a new VCR, very similar to the one advertised, and it didn't work. Avon was just going to throw it away but my buddy's mom asked if she could have it. They gave it to her, free, no strings attached. My pal adjusted the heads and it worked fine. Still works 40 years later, he tells me.
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