in the mid 80s we would borrow our aunt and uncles JVC top loader, you know the model with the red and blue colored buttons, My Step Dad finally got our first VHS VCR back in 1988, it's was the newer slim OSD GE, Panasonic made VCR, I remember looking at the remote and seeing all the functions, and remember thinking to myself, never seen anything like it, pretty high tek. Mother got divorced at the end of 1991, the VCR stayed with my step father, and I moved with my mother to my grandmothers until we found an apartment. Back then being only 13, I always wanted one of my own, I would tell my step dad, he said well I'll probably give you this one for your birthday. I still went to the same middle school and would walk to the house we moved out where dad still lived, and mother would pick me up, and I mentioned to her that dad said he was going to give me the VCR, So while he was still at work, I took the VCR, and months later my dad hid the JVC cassette deck my mother owned until the VCR was returned. My mother bought the cassette deck in 1986, and she still has it hooked up to this day, which still works, and never was in the repair shop... My dad had the GE VCR up till the mid 90s. I don't know what happened with it, I think he mentioned it quite working. We found an apartment and the move in date was on Jan 1 1992. I kept begging mother for a VCR for my birthday coming up. We went to a pawn shop and found a 1986 GE she put on layaway.
This model to be exact
It lasted up to the late 90s when the Power supply went dead, and had it sitting around up till last year when i finally took it to the road. I found another at a thrift and decided to get it.
We moved out of the apartment back in late 1992 when my mother had to go in for a hysterectomy, we moved back in grandmas, dad found a girlfriend and moved out of the house in January of 1993, we than moved back in that house, and my mother bought a JVC VCR, and I remember the VCR started eating tapes not too long after it was purchased brand new.