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Totally killer, needless to say the whole setup weighted about 500 kg, would allow about 40 minutes of recording before the battery died, and the picture looked like crap <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/silly.gif" alt="" />

Ah the good old days when you could count the transistors on one hand <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mage.gif" alt="" />



Gotta love that old technology! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

I had a big old radio in my workshop for years. It had valves rather than transistors and was so large that it stood on the floor as a piece of funiture. A huge speaker, so it sounded very good. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

In my teenage years I also remember someone giving me an early recorder that used reels of thin wire instead of tape! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> I think it was from Grundig, or another German make of the time. It was beautifully made, although it was enormously heavy and needed some strength just to move it from table to table. Unfortunately, it didn't work when I was given it, and I never discovered the secret of fixing it. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ouch.gif" alt="" />