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oh, my.

SeleniumFalcon wrote: »

I heard some good stuff from Nikko back in the 80's wonder what ever happened to them.

But John's mower won't explode if it gets rear ended at 5 mph.

....yes, I'm old. 😉

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngtALzDAIcU

SeleniumFalcon wrote: »

The Ampex team that developed the VRX-1000 helical scan VCR VTR (no videocassettes in those days).

One of those guys is Ray Dolby, and another is Fred Pfost. I worked for Fred Pfost's son for a while in a past life. I had the privilege of spending a very pleasant afternoon with Fred Pfost & the aforementioned son at Fred's home in Los Gatos some 30-ish years ago.


20th anniversary photo of the VTR and (some of) the team (1976).
https://www.historyofrecording.com/ampexvrx1000aniv.html

It's also, perhaps, worth mentioning that a number of companies had developed stationary head video tape recorders prior to the VRX-1000. In order to get the bandwidth required for video recording (ca. 4.5 MHz), the tape velocity on such recorders was terrifyingly high.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01672b2

RCA's early model operated at (up to) 360 ips (!)


http://www.labguysworld.com/AboutVTRs/AboutVTRs_001.htm

I bet you can squeal like a pig. Weeeeeeee!

A younger co worker of mine did not get the canoe meme. He has never seen the movie. In short, I told him it was a "EPIC movie. A Canoe trip that turns into a Hill Billy butt F*^%@!*@ banjo jamming nightmare".

That's about right, right?

maxward wrote: »

We used to race sailboats against a guy who was one of the camera operators on that movie. He had a few stories….

There always seems to be a connection. 😀

Obviously I'm referring to Bert Reynolds.

My wife's Grandfather was the backhoe operator for Smokey and the Bandit when the TA jumped a river in Arkansas.

So cool to make connections.