video of it in action<\/a>.<\/p>\n(Note: I may still have my Toshiba home DVD player from 2000 somewhere, but I’m sorta hoping that I managed to lose it a few years ago.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Time for another trip to the Museum of Jurassic Technology, dear readers! This installment of “Found in the Garage” leaps from the ancient days of the reel-to-reel recorder to . . . the ancient days of the first CD player! What you see is a Hitachi DA-1000, which evidently was The Bomb of 1st gen … <\/p>\n
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