re: Pictures from days gone by....

I expected your answer to be as complex as that rabbit hole I went down

Kudos to you. LOL

I don’t share your interests in philosophy, likely due to my shortcomings

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ETA: looks like Ringo on the far right

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You serious, Clark?

That is Van Halen and the guy on the right is Eddie Van Halen.

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You serious, Clark?

That is Van Halen and the guy on the right is Eddie Van Halen.

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i think he meant the guy in the back ground talking to the cops , and its not

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Janine Turner was a stealth hottie

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Doppelgänger back in the day for a certain spouse.





Not so much today, Turner has had plenty of work done….

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That is Van Halen and the guy on the right is Eddie Van Halen.

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Not him. Look at the guy at the extreme right side of the photo. Not one of Van Halen, this guy appears to just have been caught in the photo.

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Not him. Look at the guy at the extreme right side of the photo. Not one of Van Halen, this guy appears to just have been caught in the photo.

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Kinda looks like Ringo or like a lot of guys in the 70s.

Anyway it’s Van Halen.

*deleted*Thought this was the machine the parents bought mid 70's but it was the one below.

Edited-Did some looking on google and it was a Quasar VCR, not the Zenith shown.



That's a tape sitting on top of the machine. $60 each in the late 70's.

And this is the timer;


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Vintage: Mid 1970s. This is a VX format machine. This is the only model VCR ever manufactured in this format! (That I know of!) It uses a unique cartridge, with coaxial stacked reels of tape and in cartridge scanning. The head drum actually intrudes into the cartridge. The sliding lever, in front of the cartridge door in the photo, unscrews a plastic plug from the cassette for operation. After a tape is viewed, the sliding lever is moved to the left and the plug is screwed back into the cassette! Very Rube Goldberg, indeed! The tape is one half inch in width. The video recording system consists of a one head, full alpha wrap design. This gives twice the tape to head speed of two head designs. This is also why the plug is needed in the cassette. The tape is already pre wrapped in the full loop necessary to encompass the drum. These machines made very nice video and had cartridges up tot two hours in length. Unfortunately, the tape cartridge is larger than most VCR's today! The small monitor, seen in the background of the first photo, is my JVC 5" color monitor and is not part of the VCR.
The second photo is of the VT-100 mechanical timer. To program this, you remove the plastic cover on the right hand clock face and poke little pins into slots corresponding to the times you want the VCR to start and stop. The timer just turns the AC power off and on to operate the VCR deck. Being mechanical, you just put in a tape, press the lever to record, and activate the timer. It will repeat the start stop times every day until disabled. The VCR would stop automatically if the tape reached the end also. This would be perfect for capturing soap operas!

We had the BetaMax...



Then later on my dad bought the First Gen Laserdisc. I still have it in my attic.