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I forgot to mention that one of these was featured in the TV show The Six Million Dollar man in the 70s. It was in Oscar Goldman's office, and in the episode "Kill Oscar", they played a Beta cassete on it with Oscar's official videotaped order to kill him in the event of his capture. I remember watching that episode when it was new, and I thought the idea of a little black plastic tape that could play a picture on TV was a much a sci-fi thing as the whole rest of the show was. But hey; now we actually do have bionic limbs, and six million dollars will barely get you a 4 bedroom house in an upper class part of Los Angeles.
Charles
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