When Did Everyone Get Their First VHS/Betamax Player?

[Sandy G]

1st VHS-a Panasonic Omnivision IV in fall '79. Also got the movie version of "M*A*S*H*" w/it. It was only a 2-4 hr machine, they came out w/the 6 hr ones about a month or 2 later. Click tuner, piano-key-press HARD !-to operate, wired remote. Cassette popped up of the top in this big cradle affair. Whole machine was built like a battleship, there looked to be a good 2 Hyundai-engine blocks' worth of aluminum castings in it. I gave it to my church in '84 or '85, they still have it, but I doubt they use it anymore. Oughta go rescue it....