My flea market friend came by to pick up the Zenith "new horizons" TV and I noticed a box of VCR's in his vehicle. I asked him if they worked and he said "yes". The top VCR was a late '90's Philips-Magnavox (pass), the second was a Sony from the same time period (pass), and the third one was this June, '86 GE model 9-7120. It's a basic mono VCR with a 14 position varactor tuner. It actually says "cable compatible" on the front; but, that means that you can tune in up to 13 of the 36 channels that were available on most cable systems back then. I have not actually tried it yet; but, it should be worth the $10 I gave for it if it works.
We had a Magnavox that looked very much like this when I was growing up. I think it lasted longer than any VCR that we've had since.
Since this is an '86 model, wouldn't it still be a "decent" unit. Wasn't it '87 when Panasonic switched to the new style chassis.
04-23-2009, 04:04 PM
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