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Little Timmy likely lacks the strength or won’t be able to overcome the fear of being confronted with the menacing presence of one of these…
^ the sound of the tape loading mechanism alone will be enough to scare the the wits out of him - let alone the power required to press one of those buttons.
No wonder we thought machines will take over the world back then… (and pretty much have done since) - it looks like a cross between a prototype Terminator and an early model Borg!
Little Timmy is probably going around telling his friends that daddy has a machine in which you load the nuclear codes into to start WW3…
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^ respect also given to Betamax (especially the top loaders) and the Philips V2000 😃