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Posted by Bill Vermillion on 11/09/06 18:25
In article <krrrj2hn0vo0f9uh50jk7vs98gtqc2rnrm@4ax.com>,
Kimba W. Lion <KimbaWLion> wrote:
>Bill <ws@ws.com> wrote:
>
>>Maxell became a favorite, as
>>even their standard Beta L-750 tape showed visibly less noise than
>>standard Sony or Fuji blanks did at the time, especially in the Beta III
>>mode.
>That's my problem... I bought mostly Sony tapes. Silly me.
>Although they seemed fine when new, they developed tremendous
>dropouts in a few years, and even clogged up the heads.
I had serious problems with Ampex tape. Head clogs in tapes a year
or so old. Other tapes have held up for almost 30 years. I got
a Sony 7200 in early 1977. About $1500 at the time. A box
of 10 tapes was $180.00 And the only speed was 1 hour.
The changer that Sony offered on trial, and later let you keep it -
the mechanical one - let you load up to 4 tapes. It really
was a Rube Goldberg type attachment. It was only about a 10-15 second
lack of program during the unload, load, start record process.
If you put that on one of the newer models - it worked only with
the keyboard style controls - using BIII - you could theoretically
record 23 hours straight.
They came out with an electric changer add-on that I never saw.
It was their first attmept to answer the VHS 2 hour mode. And it
didn't take VHS long to get to 4-hour.
Bill
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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com
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