Here's an unusal VCR that I picked up last week. It's a Sanyo VTC-7100 Vcord portapack. Google doesn't know much about these, most mentioned I find are for the later Vcord-II color machines. Depending on where you look it's dates at anywhere from 1971 to 1978, though 1978 seems too late for a B&W format. I've seen no mention of the Vcord format in any of my magazines from the period (though various reel to reel formats, Philips VCR and Umatic got coverage prior to the arrival of Beta and VHS).
It has a 10 pin camera connector, 3 pin DC power connector and a 6 pin DIN connector than I assume is AV in/out. If I ever manage to find any tapes I should be able to work something out. I have seen a couple of orphan tapes in the past, but I didn't think to pick them up at the time.
All controls appear to be completely mechanical.
06-17-2009, 02:32 PM
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