Who remembers top loading VCR's??

[nytemare]

I do! I remember Betamax, too, but we had VHS.

[Steel City Slim]

1. My First VCR....

....was top loading.

[nytemare]

6. Those things were bricks!

I remember having it be quite a hike to the nearest video store. This was when they were owned by mom and pop, and not Blockbuster.

[Nevernose]

9. They weighed approximately nine thousand pounds

A hernia inducing device if ever I lifted one

[Steel City Slim]

10. And The "Remote"....

....was connected by a wire.

[Momgonepostal]

13. Remote with a cord!

We had one of those! LOL

[SarahB]

2. I do.

Does that make me old now? :scared:

[nytemare]

4. No!

We are in the primes of our lives!!

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

3. I can top that--

I used to have a top loading cassette deck! I bought it in 1974-- just after I bought my reel to reel tape recorder. (Man, I wish I still had that baby!)

[nytemare]

5. I remember those too!!

Pricey suckers!! Electronics prices sure have become more reasonable.

[LeftyMom]

7. I do

Ours had a corded remote, and it was beta.

I'm not old, I swear!

[Seabiscuit]

8. I do. But I never owned one. I also remember when blank VHS tape cost

$6.00 each.

[Nevernose]

11. My RCA actually still works

1978-79 or so. It's in the closet, but I tried it out last year when I moved (I'd hate to keep something that didn't work, after all), and it still keeps playing, though nothing recorded in EP or LP.

[shesemsmom]

12. I do, I also remember my Hubby

bragging when we first married 20 years ago that he paid 700 bucks for the one he carried into our marriage. I thought right then this man needs an adjustment. He doesn't do dumb stuff like that any more.

[borlis]

14. We still have one that works!

It was the first one we ever had when I was a kid. It somehow made it's way to our house and is in my son's room. It's a VHS by the way.