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From: ajs@hpfcla.UUCP (ajs)
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Subject: VCR complexity
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Date: Mon, 4-Feb-85 15:42:00 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb  4 15:42:00 1985
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Nf-From: hpfcla!ajs    Feb  4 12:42:00 1985

Learning how to use a better-model VCR is more intimidating than I
thought.  The instruction book for a Panasonic PV8600 is 40 pages and
not very thorough at that.

Just for fun I counted the widgets on the combined tuner and recorder,
which together occupy less than 0.36 cubic feet.  Depending on how you
count them, there are something like:

	48 controls
	31 indicators
	12 inputs
	 6 outputs

(Some of the controls are multi-position, of course, and some only make
sense in combination, and some are overloaded in function.  Same for the
indicators.)  Anyway, wow, that's significantly more complicated than,
say, your typical automobile or hi-fi.  There are controls on every face
of the unit except the left side, including the top and bottom!

Alan "bells and whistles" Silverstein