@Moot the ones in my early schooldays looked like below (a VCR wasn't common until 1980s and many were the old Philips VCR system which had huge cassettes that only ran for 1 hour (but were OK for a single episode of a schools TV programme).
Before video recording you would watch the TV show as it was transmitted and there was a countdown clock before it on the screen..
@Moot Ah, the "write slash fics in class" machine.
@Moot oh thank goodness, I forgot to study.
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