Excellent @Zampakid someone must have looked after it if it still works. Every one I have come across has not worked.
I recently got a Betamax VCR but had to pay to get it repaired. It works well though.
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Bit on an update about these old Pioneer units.
I made images of the drives and gave them back to the owner back in 2023. Only recently I have been able to extract the contents so I can now process them.
I also got a couple of Panasonic DMR recorders recently and have extracted old recordings from them too. Now I keep an eye out for any cheap or free recorders. 
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What are some of the strange or surprising things you have found on tapes?
I found a recording of someone watching Austar and constantly flicking between a replay of a VFL grand final on fox footy and one of the porn channels.
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Once, when looking through an old tape of a GLV8 news bulletin from 1987… it abruptly cut to…
…an ultrasound video.
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Well…could be worse. The ultrasound may not have been of a unborn kid, and could’ve been much, much, MUCH worse. Like something Zoo magazine may have put as a joke. IYKYK. 
That, or something with Glenn Ridge.
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IDK
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