1st Feb 1992 but still no let up on the Currys adverts [ATTACH]
It is all video. Sony were always trying to expand 8mm beyond camcorders. For reasons best known to him a colleague bought an 8mm home VCR. Back...
There was a different, cheaper one on eBay as well but it didn't include any software. With any of the cheap programmers they are useless without...
First result on eBay https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/176180872564 I was wondering where the software for it was then realised it is on an EPROM plugged...
Best to buy a DIN lead going to four phono plugs then find the right ones by trial and error. Touching an input with the volume turned up should...
I wasn't aware that EEPROMS lost their programming so quickly. It always used to amuse be when manufacturers quoted data retention times of 100...
Nearing the end of January and the ads still continue. Electronics shops must have had an advertising budget equal to the home furnishing shops...
You are three years out of the date. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/jd472w85s Funny how 1978 just seemed completely wrong. Things were...
You have certainly put a lot of effort into that. Are you aware that the original prototype Commodore Pet was in a painted wood case....
Maybe remove all gears and see if the motor will run "backwards"trying to move the sled back to the home position. I guess you realise CDs play...
A stage full of synths but Phil Oakey still prefers his VL-Tone [MEDIA] In the concert I saw around this time they segued from "Get Carter" into...
From the 1986 Littlewoods catalogue. Rather than paying monthly for a streaming service you could buy your music using easy weekly repayments and...
"Window shopping" a 1986 Littlewoods mail order catalogue (known for easy repayments rather than bargain prices) I thought their JVC DC33 should...
My first record playing of the year, although last year I bought far more LPs than I played. Since I don't have a deck permanently set up I used...
I didn't know the No.2 Jason Donovan track. Probably only bought by girls who thought they were going to marry him :lollegs: To me No.13 has...
Before Youtube in 1990 you could phone in to see if it was worth making a trip to the Record Shop (or Woolworth's in my location) to buy the...
Another box with a turntable https://www.wikiboombox.com/tiki-index.php?page=Sanyo+C20 Add it to this thread when you get it...
It could easily be a prop, made from clock parts or similar. Such items are far easier to make when they don't actually need to work. From the...
Happy New Year. Some news about physical media including cassettes in 2023 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67828891
It might be the only one in that particular small screen TV Radio Cassette format. There were lots of small screen colour TVs and TV radios. I...
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