Monday, April 25, 2022

I wonder what the price was in 1977?

 


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  1. 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.

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  2. Top loaders were the best. VHS of course.

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  3. 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.

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  4. $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.

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  5. Back then, a new VHS cost in the neighborhood of $2000. We had one. Weighed about 50 pounds.

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  6. 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.

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  7. To all the commenters above: So What? Things were crap then, shit now.

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  8. 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.

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