I remember when they first became popular and were priced at
where people could buy them. My buddy
Jim and his family had one and little Bobby Schmidt was amazed and jealous. The VCR changed my life and the life of
millions of other people. You no longer
had to be glued to the couch to watch your favorite program, you didn’t have to
be home to catch the latest show. When there
were free preview weekends of the movie channels you could build up your movie
collection. My parents were always the
last to jump on a new technology, we were the last to get the microwave oven,
the dishwasher, and VCR, but when we got the VCR my brothers and I learned it
and learned it well, we could make it display the right time, and get it to
record the shows that mom and dad wanted and eventually we were able to have it
record our shows as well. A sad day for
VCR purists the last of them are going to be rolled off the assembly line this
week. I haven’t used a VCR since my kids
were little and wanted to watch Disney movies, but I do love the door that VCRs
opened up for all of us.
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