[Findm-Keepm]

3 bucks is a decent price - they sold new in 1989 for about 300 dollars.

I was aboard the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal for a deployment during the winter of 89/90, and the ships store sold Fisher VCRs. Every payday, they'd break them out, and sell them by the dozens to sailors, most making copies of video tapes, or taping one of the ship's movie channels. Blank tapes were a big commodity - one guy sold sealed Kodak tapes he purchased before we left homeport, and was making a pretty penny, something like 6 dollars a tape for T120 blank tapes, sealed.

I replaced a few idlers and belts, and cleaned a lot of video heads -you could smoke just about anywhere on the ship, so particulate matter was everywhere.