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I got my first Sony SL-7200 Betamax in late February of 1976, the day the machine shipped to dealers (at least where I lived at the time in Florida). Within a month, I modified it to have a video input, since the original machines only could record off the tuner. That was back in the day when a K-60 (later L-500) blank tape was $12... in 1976 dollars.
The 2-speed SL-8200 came out about 18 months later, partly as a response to the 2-speed RCA VBT-200. This was pretty much the beginning of the Speed Wars.
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