{"id":2630,"date":"2016-12-21T13:37:03","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T18:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/?p=2630"},"modified":"2017-07-10T11:26:25","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T15:26:25","slug":"introduction-to-my-2-xl-toy-robot-from-1978","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/introduction-to-my-2-xl-toy-robot-from-1978\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to my 2-XL toy robot from 1978"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I created this 20 minute video to introduce you to my 2-XL toy robot that I played with when I was 8 years old. \u00a0It still works!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K1GnYCjJcjc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2640\" src=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/megoa7-731x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"664\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/megoa7-731x1024.jpg 731w, http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/megoa7-286x400.jpg 286w, http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/megoa7-768x1075.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/megoa7.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Apparently the manufacturer is pronounced &#8220;meego&#8221;.  Oops!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/psap.library.illinois.edu\/collection-id-guide\/audiotape#8track\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s the website that I got the image of the internals of an 8-track tape from that I used in the video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And here is a full resolution map of the 2-XL General Information user experience (click thumbnail):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/map-720p-2.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2633\" src=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/map-720p-2-1024x576.png\" alt=\"map-720p-2\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/map-720p-2-1024x576.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/map-720p-2-400x225.png 400w, http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/map-720p-2-768x432.png 768w, http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/map-720p-2.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I love this 2-XL commercial! \u00a0&#8220;Can be used to play any 8-track cartridges! \u00a0Teenagers love it!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VcBdWZM6tDg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your interest!<\/p>\n<p>Kurt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I created this 20 minute video to introduce you to my 2-XL toy robot that I played with when I was 8 years old. \u00a0It still works! Apparently the manufacturer is pronounced &#8220;meego&#8221;. Oops! Here&#8217;s the website that I got the image of the internals of an 8-track tape from that I used in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[109],"tags":[432,484,149,74,431],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2630"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2630"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2644,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2630\/revisions\/2644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}