> "exotic"? how else would you splice
helical scan video without major
> glitches? :-)
On Sun, 11 Aug 2013, Steven Hirsch wrote:
Good point. I forgot there was a time when this was
done. There was a
short blurb on the CBS news the other week that mentioned the paucity of
working Ampex videotape machines. Apparently there is one organization or
person still able to rebuild and maintain these.
"Nobody does that any more, nor ever will again!"
It would be a real treat if your remaining stock of
Minipac cartridges (or
even bare diskettes) surfaces :-).
Yes!
I feel bad that they haven't surfaced yet, and I'm already nearly an
eighth of the way through the crap^H^H^H^Hgoodies.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at
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