> Just don't expect the same durability from the new one as you got from the
> one that was made 37 years ago. Do you recall what you paid for it in 1975?

I remember around 1975 I got a new clock radio for my birthday, used
it daily and it lasted over ten years, and when it died the one I
replaced it with was good for about ten years. Nowadays if I buy a
clock radio I'm lucky if I get two years out of it before it stops
working, and after a year or so of use I buy a new clock radio and
keep it unopened and sitting in the closet just so I don't have to
scramble to pick up a new one when my current one craps out.

VCR's were the same way in the 80's; they were good for daily use for
7-10 years, but by the late 90's they lasted maybe two years before
they needed replaced.