As they say, what's old is new. A lot of these problems I remember having with VHS. Tapes would rewind too slowly, or they would rewind too fast and I would overshoot. Early IR remotes had to be aimed carefully, so pausing took a few attempts. Some remotes had a physical cord, which could come unplugged. And if a tape got jammed that means pulling it out carefully, gently rolling it back into the cartridge, and since the tape is now back at the beginning, fast forwarding to find my place again.