I cannot afford to drink for the next month after the party Friday night, so I sat in talking to K-man on ICQ tonight ... Which is the worse of 2 evils ???
Anyways the topic somehow became nostalgic consumer electronics ... I think I gave myself 30 new grey hairs telling him about my parents paying $1600 in 1981 for a JVC Two-Head VHS recorder the size or a fucking XEROX machine, that you could program only 10 channels into, and the tapes loaded in the top of the bastard ...
We then remenissed about Sinclair ZX81's ... VIC=20's, Intellivisions, PONG, Colecovisions ... and he told me about his father's 8-track player .... LMFAO
I still got a PANASONIC RS-805US Stereo 8 Track "recorder" that works like a charm, and is still a proud part of my stereo rack, right along side my Harmon Kardon receiver, Pioneer CD deck, and Cerwin Vega monitors ... problem is that most of my old Meatloaf, Styx, Boston, and REO Speedwagon cartriges are all crapping out on me now
I'd be very interested in what pieces of nostalgic equipment you have laying around your basement, or even still being used to this day ??
Oh yeah ... I also have one of those SEARS "Stereophonic" phonograph players (orange and black beast - I'm sure somebody knows what I am talking about ... Sears was the first company to sell them)
Problem was most phonograph records were still recorded in MONO back then, so you didn't get true stereo effect for the most part