RGM Goodwill Hunting Episide #3 More of my charity shop finds from 2023 

Cool finds there!! 😊 Asier.

Love the old Pioneer headphones! I guess they don't call 'em 'cans' for nothing! Ah yes, the 3V31 - a clone of the JVC HR-7650 if I recall correctly, and the successor to the 3V23. The latter was still considered a premium machine, and I'd rather they'd kept the design and simply added linear stereo to it! I recall it was quickly superseded by the 3V32, which had LongPlay, so was a 4-head model (the JVC equivalent is HR-7655). They were all linear stereo machines, so naturally sounded quite muffled and wooly in comparison to the Hi-Fi VHS models which came out a few years later (e.g Ferguson 3V43/ JVC HR-D725). Pre-recorded tapes from that era featuring the Dolby Stereo logo are likely to carry a liner stereo soundtrack. The pace of technology change at that time was quite something, as you began the eighties with clunky top-loaders, and ended with sleek NICAM and even S-VHS machines with all the bells 'n' whistles thrown-in!

Hi there, I managed to buy two commodore 1702 monitors yesterday from a tv recycling place, one works and the other has line collapse, ive ordered cap kits for them both from farnells which should be here Monday, im looking forward to restoring them. Also collected 8 televisions I bought from various ebay sellers and have an amber monitor and an apple 2 se with 2 drives, monitor and printer on the way. Oh edit, also got a spectrum +3 with disc drive and a spectrum 128k +2B last week. Also a Sony PVM-14M4E. I will have to upload some videos. Love your videos, thanks for sharing. Steve

You haggled....not bartered....with a charity shop?....