Topic: The £1,161 CompactFlash card

[Rik]

My first, 10MB HD cost me £300.

[Simon]

Mind you, that's what my first CD player cost me. 

[Rik]

My second cost me £1,000.

[Clive]

My first 42" telly cost me £2999 (in a sale!) and my first VHS recorder was £450 back in 1982.  I don't play in big boys games anymore.  

[Rik]

 

[Simon]

I couldn't afford a VHS in the 80s, so I rented for years from Radio Rentals.   

[Rik]

Same here.

[Clive]

My £450 bought me the most basic video recorder ever marketed!  It had record, playback and one-speed fast forward/reverse during which you could not see anything in the screen.  It had a one-event timer and that was about it.  The only good thing about it was that it was one of the very first front-loaders and was very attractive in appearance compared to most of its contemporaries. I believe it was a Sharp.

[Simon]

Mine was a Furguson. 

[Rik]

Which was a badged JVC.

[Simon]

Indeed.

[D-Dan]

We had a Grundig V2000 player - you could use both sides of the tape

Steve

[Rik]

Those were the days, Steve. How much better off, we the consumers would have been, had there not been so many format wars.

[Simon]

And they still continue. 

[Rik]

Always will, I guess.