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[lkfmdc]

I bought one of the first VHS instructional videos, it was on Goju style karate, it was like $95. Now you can buy a VCD from China for $4

[David Jamieson]

Son, I've GOT plenty of old VHS tapes. I don't have any 8mm films tho. That's before my time, like the Jurassic period, but I do remember watching them just prior to VHS coming out. It was like home movie stuff back then, pretty rare really. Most of that got converted to VHS, and hopefully subsequently to YouTube...

What choo talking bout willis, you're the same age as me! You would have been a teenager, almost legal age when vhs first appeared.

Unless you didn't have one of those things. lol
My Grandad had 8mm home movie cam and projector. Colour too!
Cool stuff and old tech still works! that's the best part.

I have computers that are less than 5 yrs old that are fail.
I have a vhs from 1987 that still works fine!

[GeneChing]

Some of my friends had them. In fact, there's a homemade ninja movie starring me as a teenager floating about the web. But as for 8mm film, some of my sihing had them and we would have kwoon get-togethers and they would be shown.

I feel ya about old tech. I have a cast-iron Royal typewriter that I used through my freshman year at college that still works fine. Since then, I've chewed through countless keyboards. Must be all that iron finger training I did as a youth.

[David Jamieson]

Planned obsolescence has ruined design and functionality of a lot of consumer goods, especially technology.

That is the real underlying problem. Not a lot of people make quality products anymore across the line in all manufacturing industries.