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Old 01-15-2013, 02:48 AM
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Originally Posted by dieseljeep View Post
IIRC, Olson Electronics was selling a VTR deck, that was built for Warwick, by Ampex. It was intended for a console combination, color TV/VTR.
They actually built and sold them at Sears, but they were too expensive and didn't sell very well. They sold the surplus to Olsons, just the deck.
An experimenter actually tapped one into an RCA CTC48 chassis and it worked fairly well.
"Cartrivision". I dreamed of buying one from Olson for the $250 they wanted in 1978 or so. Later, I found a real Betamax VCR for $320 instead.
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