Welcome Ryan I too was admiring the Imac. To me it doesn’t seem that long since they came out and saved Apple from bankruptcy. How times have...
Thanks for posting. I think you are both looking at the brochure through twenty-first century eyes. Back at the end of end of the 70s clock...
I always think of Bosch as being green https://www.argos.co.uk/search/bosch-drill/
They were definitely into funky colours and designs in the 1970s, except for large TVs which came in wood finish boxes (apart from the white ones...
I wonder how much it would have cost to buy all those parts as spares from a VW dealer :wink2 Probably, several times the cost of a new car :nodding:
I wonder who their target market is. I had a look on the Dixons website at the reviews for the Sony available here (reviewed in th Techmoan video)...
The reason you find so many Charity shops in the UK is that they get an 80% discount on their rates (property taxes), and various other perks such...
I thought the Hi-Res part is all about marketing. Ten years ago you could buy a Panasonic DVR which amongst other things would upscale your VHS...
From what I have read the idea of HD Radio is to give better quality than standard FM. Whatever the original intention of DAB was, in the UK it...
When they are making cassettes the standard procedure is to make a C-Zero or C0 with leader tape between the two reels. The leader is then cut in...
As you suggest, a lot of the time the problems are caused by management over-confidence (and thats putting it in a polite way). The first time I...
On many items I agree. For something I will soon post about I needed a 2.5mm to 3.5mm stereo adapter. I got two from China for 99p including...
Well it is definitely "Low Noise" but is "Low Signal" as well.:thumbsdown: Can you see if there is a leader in there ? I saw / read somewhere...
Having read many times about the imminent collapse of Radio Shack (which from their website does seem to still be trading), last week the UK...
Another thought about this. See if you can undo the units and see how easy it is to do things like change belts. My recent experiences. Old...
Get well soon Nick. Ebay sellers are relying on you to bid against Northener who by the sound of it is currently snapping up the bargains.
The pinchroller is the rubber wheel that presses against the tape. The capstan is the metal shaft that goes though the tape and revolves. The two...
Another one which applies to CDs as well. No regional encoding. A cassette or CD made anywhere in the world will play on a player made or sold...
I wonder how much that cost when it was new. In the 1982 Dixons catalogue I recently posted pages from, the JVC portable video system was £1150...
I have to admit I wasn't expecting the VCR in there as well. In my garage (never tried) is a Sony Trinicon video camera something like this...
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