-=> Roy J. Tellason said to Greg Mayman
 -=> about "*BIG* TRANSISTORS" on 02-15-04  04:06.....

 RJT> Yeah,  that'd be one place.  Maybe in the capstan too?  I don't know
 RJT> enough about VCRs to be able to say,  but there are times when they do
 RJT> reverse those, for those slow-motion functions and such.

Yeah, I'd forgotten that. The different fast reverse during the
play cycle would need a reversable motor for the capstan.

 RJT> I've never seen such a thing,  though I keep hearing of such stuff
 RJT> from time to time.  For magnetic cards,  floppy disks,  tape
 RJT> cartridges,  whatever,  sooner or later somebody will try to build a
 RJT> "jukebox" for them. 
 
 GM> Yes. We don't seem to have any true analog displays these days.

 RJT> Even real meters are too expensive,  it's cheaper to throw a chip and
 RJT> 3-4 LEDs at something.  :-(

When you think how cheap it would be to make an integrated
display with (say) 50 or 100 subminiature LEDs, it is surprising
that most times they stop at 5 LEDs.

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