Justin Palmer(justin@briareos.demon.co.uk) added

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> > I actually watched something on videotape a couple of weeks 
> > back.  It was quite nice to know that my VCR still works after not
> > being used for a year or so. ^_^
> 
> 	I never really liked videotapes, even when they were the bleeding 
> edge of entertainment archive technology. They took up too much 
> space and I never liked having to rewind them, except very late in 
> their life when the NTSC player I bought came equipped with what 
> may as well have been labelled "TurboOverWind"...! ^_^

Oh, I had one of those with a 'turbo-rewind'.  I could hear it pick up speed
and it always stopped with a very worrying *THUNK* that I was sure that one day
would result in it ripping the end of the tape off the spindle!


== Peter ==
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"There's no such thing as a
weapon that doesn't kill"
(Chise: Saikano)

Peter Boulter wrote:
> Justin Palmer(justin@briareos.demon.co.uk) added
> 
> <snip>
>>> I actually watched something on videotape a couple of weeks 
>>> back.  It was quite nice to know that my VCR still works after not
>>> being used for a year or so. ^_^
>> 	I never really liked videotapes, even when they were the bleeding 
>> edge of entertainment archive technology. They took up too much 
>> space and I never liked having to rewind them, except very late in 
>> their life when the NTSC player I bought came equipped with what 
>> may as well have been labelled "TurboOverWind"...! ^_^
> 
> Oh, I had one of those with a 'turbo-rewind'.  I could hear it pick up speed
> and it always stopped with a very worrying *THUNK* that I was sure that one day
> would result in it ripping the end of the tape off the spindle!

	Yes, I was always slightly worried about the smoke being emitted from 
the loading door... ^_^


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