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From: "Tony Duell" <ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 6:17 AM
Subject: Re: Cool little modulator
> > Most televisions in the late 70's - early 80's came with RF in only. If
>
> And many of them had a live ('hot') chassis so it was non-trivial to add
> a composite video input...
Quite.
> > you wanted comp in, you had to buy a "monitor".
> > Back then, VCRs weighed 50 lbs and cost around $500.
Or more.
> On the other hand, they still work 20 years later, unlike the modern
> plastic crap I see for sale.
I still have a circa 1980 Sony Beta that's 8" high 14" deep and about 18" long
and it weighs a *lot*, however, it still works. (I saved it from a scrapyard and replaced
the only faulty component - a fuse - some 10 years back.)
Geoff in Oz
Received on Thu Jun 05 2003 - 20:27:01 BST