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welcome to another video today we'll be discussing the Ampex micro 87 are this starts off with a totally black screen until it's activated and then BOOM what you need shows up on the otherwise black screen does that remind you of anything else we have in our pockets these days yes I saw this in a stack of audio equipment I just it was laying facedown I just saw these buttons in the word impact I thought maybe it was a reel-to-reel but when I lifted it up saw all this other stuff with the tuner it's like wow it's a receiver it was designed in 1969 released in 1970 was called a receiver it was $269 yeah page 15 it was called a receiver a Music Center or a cassette recorder and player and it originally came with speakers microphones and some demo tapes which I didn't get the micro 52 is a tape deck only version which has no amplifier or receiver it also came as the MX 1000 it was shoved in