19 Jul
2006
19 Jul
'06
5:34 p.m.
jim stephens wrote:
to me (using the jeans example) whether I split the
seams while wearing
them, or they wear out too soon is a better measure than who's name is
on the butt.
absolutely.
Also, I doubt that the tape was anything but
2400'.
Same here, based on googling around. Makes me wonder if the manufacturing
process winds the reel a bit tighter than a drive will or something, so once
it's had a run through a drive it'll show as closer to 2400ft.
Your box sounds like a nice one. A beast but nice if
you have room
to play with it.
Luckily it's got all the OS tapes, drivers for the image processing hardware
etc. and seems to accept various standards of video as input - just a question
of whether the tapes (those are all QIC 150MB ones) are still good. If they
are though it could make an interesting museum addition as it could actually
do something visual.
My experience of reading old QIC media has been on the whole pretty good, so
I'm pretty hopeful.
cheers
Jules