As a minimum for repairing you need a test meter for checking your battery voltage is actually reaching the board etc. They aren't expensive. The...
Since I just mentioned it [MEDIA]
I'm afraid I can't help. An occasion I regret not having a photo of is when a friend, who was a massive Wham fan, decided it would be a great...
Yes CD-Video was digital so far closer to DVD than Laserdisc which recorded an analogue signal without using any compression. I have had a couple...
Almost ten year old Techmoan [MEDIA] Of course Laserdisc led to the development of both CD and CD-ROM. Look at this as a showcase of its...
Rather than hijack the Flash Gordon thread I though I would start one on Laserdisc. My only experience of it was through Karaoke. I reckon Pioneer...
Do you have a Laserdisc player to play it on ?
Challenge accepted. TBH I have seen sillier looking Bluetooth cans. [ATTACH] You should have asked earlier. I am also a bit worried that you...
Loads of good 1980s footage of shops in this. Back when the highlight of a visit to town was going in HMV, Virgin, Our Price, MVC, Boots, WH...
March 1989 and Woolworths were still advertising blank tapes. 50p each for C90s is a bit of a bargain when pre-recorded cassettes were about £4....
Last weekend I was close to posting this on the "Cool Stuff For Sale" thread but then decided to buy it myself. [ATTACH]...
I couldn't see a price on the first F1. I would dismiss the second one. For 75 Euros I would expect a working one. As @Mister X says the...
It looks more like glue to me. Through hole capacitors are more likely to blow the deliberate scribe lines in the top. As for why they would be...
I have read that in the past people used Radio Control model fuel line as a replacement.
I would be surprised if there wasn't the odd American music shop selling the very music orientated CX5M. When I went to Spain in the late 1980s I...
In the early 1980s the British computer market was one of the largest so there was competition between start ups and traditional companies to get...
I wasn't expecting to find an American radio with Longwave on it at a local car boot sale. In case you are wondering it has a total of nine bands....
I bought my first VCR on December 27th 1984 (the first day of the sales). Electronics retailer Lasky's were advertising Fisher top loading VCRs...
Some interesting information in the link. Maybe it is the translation but I was surprised at the comment: "Personally, I only became aware of...
Colour TV Radio Cassettes seem to be a rarity. Philips did a fairly big one. This is the first time I have seen this JVC [ATTACH]...
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