Post by lugnut on Apr 24, 2012 21:27:16 GMT -5
So who among us still have long-obsolete technology hooked up, or at least still keep it around and can't quite bring themselves to throw it out?
I'm actually down a bit from years prior, but I still have three VCRs. A fairly-fancy-for-its-time JVC S-VHS deck is hooked up, but I have a fairly nice Sony and a cheap knockoff Orion brand model sitting around. I've got a Tanglewood brand (seems to have been a late-70s division of Audiodesign) 8-Track deck which isn't hooked up, but only because most of the tapes I run across in flea markets are in need of pad repairs I'm too lazy to make - but it does work. My mid-80s AIWA component stereo is pretty much antiquated in and of itself, but it also consists of a fancy dual cassette deck with every kind of tape-related option you can think of. Unfortunately, only one deck works - think the other needs a belt replacement. Besides the SVHS deck, there's also a Sega Dreamcast connected to my TV, a system dead since 2002 but still the last really great one in my opinion.
I've had my eye on an RCA Selectavision CED player with about 100 discs at a flea market here, even though I know buying it would be a stupid decision. It works fine (well, as fine as those things ever worked), and it's been there forever so I'm sure the guy would cut a dirt-cheap deal on it, but the more logical part of me wonders what the fuck I'd do with a ton of huge clunky discs I'd rarely ever watch, so I've held back. There's also a Pioneer laserdisc player there that's been tempting me...
How's 'bout youse guys?
