[Lazlo in PA]

No knock to old tech from me. I have a 1978 Panasonic Omnivision in my bar I use just for kicks. First VHS machine for the masses. It plays tapes so clear you would think they are DVD's. Cost someone a fortune when it was new. New car money. I just was poking fun at the posters cranky attitude toward the new stuff. One never knows if it a good tech or not for many years down the road where we can see what it did for us.

Mine has deluxe simulated woodgrain on the front.

[Secret Agent Man]

I know you weren’t knocking it, that is the attitude of some - if it isn’t brand new it’s outdated and useless.

And some of the earlier stuff, like the piece you have, was made a lot better than some of the newer stuff. I am amazed you haven’t lost more of the plastic parts in it, just from outgassing the last 33 years. I know probably much more of the internals on it were metal.

The newer vcr’s heads (what reads the tape) wear out in a few years. That thing must have great heads on it.