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My parents bought one of the G decks, a Panasonic (National was gone by then) NV-G40. I was always amazed that it did everything off the one motor, was a huge burden on the clutch though, had to make sure that a genuine one was used. Later Panasonics, with the superdrive mechanism had more motors, interesting that!
The whole machine didn't miss a beat for the first 10 years, then a cascade of problems, dried up grease on the P5 loading arm, SMPS failure, clutch failure. It never stripped any gears though.
It had one of those bar code scanners for programming. This was one of Panasonic's more useless things, it was no easier to program with it, and only actually recorded what you wanted about 60% of the time, possibly due to missing info between the scanner and the machine when you transmitted the info.
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