2 Jun
2005
2 Jun
'05
12:27 p.m.
On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 11:55 -0700, Zane H. Healy wrote:
The players are pretty big - about four times the size of a DVD player
(at least), not to mention quite heavy (for what they are). I doubt
they'd be allowed on as carry-on luggage.
It's the vibration I'd be bothered about rather than any temperature
issue though. The quality of the solder work on all the players I've
been inside is about the worst I've seen on any electronic equipment,
plus they're constructed internally with a large backplane into which
about ten PCBs are plugged. Then there are lots of interconnecting
cables, plus a seperate 'slice' on the base with the SCSI interface
board plus genlock / mixer boards. Lots of places where connections can
fail!
Most schools in the UK had at least one of these setups at one point; we
took one over to the CGE show in London last year and it was amazing how
popular it was! They're fascinating bits of equipment to sit there and
mess around with (although the graphical UI is really showing its age
and isn't the most intuitive thing ever!)
cheers
Jules
I don't
know of any for sale at present but will keep an ear to the
ground. Worst case we've got one at the museum and I've got one at home,
but I've already had to fix faults on the players serveral times -
getting them across the pond intact would be next to impossible I
think! :-(
I somehow suspect that arrangements would need to be made to take fly over,
and bring them back as "Carry On" luggage. Something that in this day and
age is likely to be easier said than done :^(