On 24. mars. 2009, at 00.54, Brent Hilpert wrote:
ics65 at
sbcglobal.net wrote:
Does anyone know of any list, group or museum for vintage (1970s)
professional Audio/Video equipment enthusiasts? Of course vintage
computers were a part of some of this A/V equipment, especially for
control systems.
If this is off topic, any replies can be sent to my email directly ics65 at
sbcglobal.net
A couple of years ago a 70's era Sony U-Matic VCR was dropped off at
the radio
museum here.
(U-Matic's were a big clunky video-cassette that predated the VHS
and Betamax formats.)
Making this on topic is that the sole cassette (jammed in the
player) that came
with it had a label with a DEC logo on it and a title something
like: "... VAX
...: Meeting the Productivity Challenge..." and a date circa 1981.
I was intending to connect it up to a TV of course and see if it
would run, but
somebody threw it all in the dumpster before I got to it.0
I have an ad for the VAX-11/782 that I found while going through the
"We're going to throw this crap away if you don't take it!" pile at
the 2007 VMS Boot Camp (or "Advanced Technical Seminar" in suit-
speak). I did rip it from U-matic tape, but here in Norway I was
unable to decode a colour carrier off it, so it is monochrome.
The tape is up as:
http://gunkies.org/stuff/vax11-782.mpg
-Tore :)