This hot summer of 2016 has seen more than its share of echoes from the 1980s. It started with the premier of Ghostbusters, the third version of Dan Ackroyd’s tasty New York nut salad. Both 1980s versions can be seen on television. Now word that the last maker of the Video Cassette Recorder will cease production of this device in August. Astonishingly, 750,000 new VCRs were sold in 2015. But now the Japanese maker, Funai Electric, says that’s not enough to keep going. Thirty years ago the market gobbled up 15 million VCRs annually. They say the last units might be seen in places like RadioShack in the U.S. Funei continues in business making electrical components.