Random Retro Riffraff #5: Introducing the Incredible VCR
The column below was written in 1970. Reread it the next time you’re pissed off at your iPad for taking three extra seconds to load your movie. You will kiss each thumb-smudge on its gleaming screen. Later, in your nightmares, you will be chased by a whirring horde of “video-cassette players the size of electric typewriters,” all of them spitting seven-inch cartridges at you and demanding $795.00.
2013: I love you. All is forgiven.
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The “rewinds in about a minute or two” part made me lawl fondly. I am alive long enough to remember being excited about that.