The Sony Betamax is 40 years old this year.

In 1975 Sony was promising a big game changer for tv watching audience it would be called the Betamax was advertised as the next big thing



If you can program the time in to it you could recorded your tv shows when u were out and not mis them.

It is 1 year older than VHS
but VHS was a lot more popular than Betamax ...
the big reason was Betamax could only record 1 hour compared to VHS 2 hours

My 1st post

Hi my 1st post on my 1st blog.
This blog is for the old retro technology fan
Remembering a simpler and slower time technology (such as dial up)
everything from retro phones from the past and old school cars
to fun gaming consoles to hand helds plus alot more
keep a eye on this space ;D
One can only understand the future
If you understand the past