Hmmm. On that HFranken-500, maybe it is the original faceplate, but the Frame legends were worn away when, oh, I don't know, maybe when HE STOOD THE DECK ON IT'S FACE to photograph the top of the unit? Eeeeeyikes!

Those RMT-151s were a dutch auction a long time ago at $3ea. The seller had 100 of them and, if I recall, sold 40, 20 to snaling. So he may have bought up to 80 of the things.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=21166&item=1943571708&rd=1

My latest conquest. I think that remote is VERY cool. but who wouldn't. A friend of mine said that trying to do professional stuff with VHS was like trying to run a trucking company with a Yugo. Using one of these machines would be like doing it with a very well built Yugo.

eeeeewww... I dont want a Penisonique VeHoS.

Even though it's Just a Vehos Crapbox, it's nice that you beat VCR Garysnail too get it. But why couldn't the seller test this? Couldn't find a VHS tape? I see dead VCR...

Usually that just means "I'm a lazy B*stard who can't be bothered to do anything more than plug it in" or that it doesn't have RF connections and he has never seen a BNC before in his life.

I have 6 boxes of Beta tapes, for which I have no use. I'm glad to know there are others who maintain an active interest. They were given to me by a friend who was an electronics engineer at U. C Berkeley for 40 years. I have no idea what the cash value is on them. If you can advise me, I'd appreciate it very much.

The tapes are new, unused, sealed: Fuji 1 box L750, Sony 2 boxes Dynamicron L750 ES/BH, Scotch 2 boxes EG+ L750,Memorex 4 tapes L750, Sony 1 tape ES/L750,BASF 5 tapes Chrome extra quality. 10 tapes / box = 60 tapes total

If interested, email or phone 707-643-8089 Vallejo, Calif 94591

I'd really have no use for a VHS these days, pro or otherwise. I do have a Sony SVO-1710 pro hifi deck that saw most use for duping rental tapes to beta (thought maybe a pro deck would output a better signal than consumer, haha). Now I do DVDs almost exclusively. So the VHS's are not doing much these days except acting a dust magnets. ;)

TJ Bedi,

I'll give you $25 for the case of Fuji tapes (plus shipping, of course). You might be able to get a few bucks more for the case on ebay, but again you may not, and you'd have to pay them for the honor of listing them.

Brenda Ann

for those who were talking about a PRO-X tape... Looks like a betacam shell. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1981840452

and for those who wish to donate a christmas present to the poor children at the Wards Home For Wayward Mazda Millenia S-es and Other Outcast Professional Electronics...http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=15099&item=1944483738&rd=1or!http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3319&item=1944394684&rd=1or!http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1874879999 hee hee hee....

Or even better.... http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3696&item=2081524978&rd=1

a Snalicon Grafix monitor that I reeeally want!

Well, not ME... the children of the home, actually :) :)

TJ-I'll give you $20 each for the cases of Sony tape. I agree with Brenda-you might get a little more or a little less on eBay, but you'd have to pay for the listing and wait for the auction to end...

Well as to the tapes, I was gonna go for a case of Sonys, I'll have to settle for a case of Scotch (he he he) so I offer $15 which is too much because scotch tapes are lousy but new is better than used. Jesse, stay away from Rocker-boy, he sold me a JVC SVHS deck that turned out to be deader than snail droppings, he probably fished the trashcans at a place and gets these to sell as-is. As to copying I don't have a DVD player and I need to make VHS tapes for my silly friends and family who use VHS... And, Jesse, stay away from foreign cars. this is (One of) my (More realistsic) dream cars:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1874770208

This has the same V-8 as the corvette. it will pass anything but a filling station.

Well, Sean... I dun like BUICKS (big-ugly-indestructible-car-killers :)).. An Olds Alero would be fine. Heheh a Buick Reatta with the touch screen CRT inside. Hey Sean did you also see that tasty U-mie? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=15099&item=1944483738 It's a VO-9850.... Just as good to me as BVU-800, although I'd like something with a TBC. I want to bid on the u-mie.. a VO-10000 would be cool, lol if it existed. A secret government informant told me that the smoky guy may bid on the 9850... If he does I'll go half with him on it.

Well....... Also, Sean, have you driven a Millenia S? :) Drive one before u say to stay away from foreign cars. hehehe.. I also had a question. Has anyone succeeded in replicating the Multi-Connector bus on teh back of the SL-2000 so we can directly connect Line inputs to it?

well not yet, Jesse, since I have a dead SL-2000 it may be a good project. I've never driven a Millenia S but there is a universal reason to stay away from foreign cars, it's much harder to gets parts and repair. Well, about Buicks, I know someone who has a raetta with the computer, and it's really a nice car. And you're right, mostly, Big, Yes, Ugly, no, Indestructable Car Killers, yes! (I drive a 98 LeSabre and somebody made a mistake and turned in front of me, well, I drove home, and his car went away on the flatbed. So now I'll drive a big car for the rest of my life. But back on-topic, Anything later than a five-series Umatic will be a pain since the audio connectors are all XLRs you need $80-$160 in adapters to make it work AT ALL! and Just say no to that seller, with him "as-is" means "Broken".

And I''m not AGAINST foreign cars, if I had everything my way I'd be driving one of these:http://www.americandreamcars.com/1979mercedes.htm

Well what's wrong with a nice Crowne Victoria? Just remember to purchase the extended warranty...

Thanks for the tip on that Rockerboy snail Sean. no sense in paying top dollar for bottom of the barrel...

Will have to find something else from the surplus inventory clearance center, I suppose...

Go here....

http://home.t-online.de/home/340054418855-0001/Betamax/SL-F1.html

for pinouts to the SL-F1 /SL-2000

Jesse, if you're gonna look for an SGI monitor, go for the GDM-20E21 or a GDM-90W11 24" widescreen since they're true multisync. The 20D11 will only work at certain resolutions and refresh rates. I have 2 20E21's and they're GREAT. Also, if you're gonna get one of those monitors, you really must get a nice SGI system to go with it, probably an Indigo2 or O2 or maybe even and Octane :)

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2078578758

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2075770547

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2081644001

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2080874384

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2079959856

As for cars, well I drive an '88 Mercury Cougar. Definitely under the big indestructable car killer category. But, not ugly.

Sean Meskillyou "Not"need $80-$160 in adapters to make it workSimply on the XLR connectors solder pin-1 and pin3 togehterand use them as grund. Pin 2 have the audiosignalRegardsJan

GEe thanks for pointing me in the $ 200 up range. I saw like 3 of those O2s hiding under the "4Warn Storm Centre"... I guess they run the weather simulations.

Let me set you straight on a couple things, Jesse. 1: The Kyoto accords are NOT anything to help the environment, they are a way to try to kill the industries in small countries, because they could not afford the technology neccessary to meet the standards. What's more, Although George W. is clearly not a genious, he's not the moron he's made out to be, either. you have to be VERY careful about things that look like they protect the environment, for instance, certain regulations prohibit upgrades unless a set of standards are met, so, if the factory owner has enough money to upgrade system "X", he can't do it, even though the upgrade would reduce his polutant output, because regulations say he can't do anything unless systems "Y" and "Z" are upgraded too, and he can't afford that, so he just stays where he is. You have to try to see issues in shades of gray, not B&W. Usually someone is wrong and someone is more wrong, if that makes any sense.

Oh yeah, my Buick can get 30 MPG on regular gas and is so clean it's regularly "Green-screened" just like Hondas.

Sony SuperBetamax HF-400. Original Remote. Roughly 30 -40 Beta tapes. Some sealed new (blank). Factory movies and head cleaner. Would like to get $175.00 or best offer. Email [email protected] for more details.

Thanks

TJBedi: Since it looks like all the other packahes of tapes have offered, I'll take the "odd's n' end's" package; the Memorex/Sony/BASF. Take $15 shipped for it? Lemme know....

I gotta admit I sorta like those foreign cars myself. We have an old US air force surplus 1959 Cadilac/Superior Ambulance. Got it a accident last year when we rear-ended a 40 years it's junior 'SUV'. Those 1950's bumpers can sure do a lot of hurting.

Re: The O2's. Yep, they probably are for the weather simulations. They're very commonly used for that, I know the weather channel did until they went to Octanes. A bunch of TWC's rackmount O2's were on ebay awhile back (all metal exterior, they sure don't look like the normal breadmaker O2's). The O2's do have incredibly good quality video capture and video output. I'd never give mine up, nor my Indigo2. Except for maybe an Octane2 :)

Like the Ghostbusters' ambulance, Franny? ;)

That would be about right...

Especially when hauling the various test equipment and the 'Texas Walkman and Palmcorder' for a field experiment...

Franny, will you marry me? I LOVE Cadillacs! They are tied with Imperials and Lincols as my favorite cars! I came VERY close to buying a 1966 Cadillac "60-Special Fleetwood Brougham", which is like this:http://www.americandreamcars.com/1966fleetwood2002.htm

Saw this lovely vintage 'import' recently...

http://images.ofoto.com/photos286/7/11/93/13/97/0/97139311703_0_ALB.jpg

eeeeee! me wants!

Tony Soparno would be proud of your taste in fine Cadilacs. You could fit a good sized Mafia family of bodies in that car's boot. And still have room for the tools you need to bury them...

You know that big Red Chevy Suburban that Tony Soprano drives, well, my dad drives the EXACT same truck! right down to the color of the interior. The scary thing is we're from New Jersey.

new feature in ghostbuster ambulance: BVU-800 Sound System by Sony with bose speakers :) lol! hehehe.. Yes, I'd bet it would cause a lot of damage hauling the Texas walkman and pocket-vidi-corder... A couple Betamies buckled in in the front seat.. LOL! awwwwww! An an octane and SL-2000 in child seats in the back :)

Well, I guess the only huge car from the 70s I'd drive would be the Eyewitness News satellite truck, or the red Caddy from Touched By An Angel :)

Oh, yes, did I forget to mention I got the C7 GE Mercury Vapour Christmas Tree Lamps? Geez, one would think they were mercury vapour by how hot they burn.... I also sleeched a Transaudio 3850 (not sure of model #) stereo 8-trax player/recorder... I cant believe ppl said 8 trax sucked! they were cool... u should hear the audio after it's routed through my yamaha dsp-1 dolby surround-surround sound processor !!!!!!!!!!

Well if you like Christmas lights I've got the ones for you, try C6 lights, they were the famous "If one goes out the all go out" lights. I have some. Check here.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=739967909

That has to be a pretty small tree to use only nine lights. At least you could wire a menorah...

It's not a Christmas tree - it's a Hanukkah bush...

You used a LOT of them on one tree, the small size made it easy to find which buld was out, however. They made little things that you put two bulbs in instead of one and they NEVER went out. Clever.

Better a Chanukkah bush than a George W. Bush..

Does NOBODY like him? or was that just a joke? Ah well, I can't hate any of you, you're all here because you like Beta.

Hey, gang - take a look at the content and conduct of the Betacam, Umatic and V2000 chat pages.

Then take a look at you have been posting here. Especially today.

Well, we've been talking about Umatic, politics, Cars, Christmas lights, computers, video monitors, oh, and something called Betamax too ;) I get the picture. Since I'm as guilty as anyone, all I can say is "let's not make a habbit of it" G'night.

Ya all the ppl on the betamie-cam, u-mie, and v2000 boards are prolly just a bunch of stiff grizzled video techs who've been in video since real-to-reel video.. :) We're more fun cuz we're the 'kids' from the 80s :)

Christmas tree lights??

Strange.Anyone getting a beta for chrissy?a C7 maybe?

Thinking of getting myself an SLO-325 for Christmas.. course, it would be a month or so late getting here.

I gotta agree with Jesse, we're just having fun. I will issue a "General caution" that we be careful not to degrade into insults or other tradings of shots, but we're here because Betamax ties us together; Mac and PC users, Liberals and conservatives, English, American, or Europeans, one generation and another, so let's just have a good time!

Getting back to beta stuff, they opened a new Goodwill in my area and I got lucky. There' was a huge box of videotapes in the back (most the other format), but a bit of digging landed me 17 Sony Betacam 30 's w/ cases. But that's not all! At the very bottom of the bin, there were TWO 10-packs of surplus tapes; they have "Prop. of U.S. Govt." stamped on the sides; L-370's (odd one's) and are a *very* light blue! They're shrinkwrapped in brick-packs. Not a bad score all-in-all. :)

Those are mine. Return them at once to your nearest CIA branch office.

Eeeeee!! The smoky guy wants his tapes back.... Or will there be a contribution to the Home.. The children only have 1 tape left that has some free space... They offer to pay you.

HAs anyone heard back from the guy with the tapes to sell or do I contact him by Email?

Jesse: You joked about "Mercury vapor" Christmas lights. Here's the real thing.

http://members.fortunecity.com/drg45nzp/litebulb.html

I wish you'd warned us there were going to be pop-up ads in that last link.

Hoping they open another circle of hell for the people who invented pop-ups and spam...

Contact him by e-mail, Sean. I've already sent him the $$$ for the Fuji tapes.

Hey, don't forget the Linux ppl. LOL. Seriously my favorite foriegn car is the '70's Ford Capri; excellent bang-for-the-buck, and more everthing than a Mustang II.

Ya know, I just realized that some of my Beta tapes are about 17 years old and just this past weekend I watched Pink Floyd, Live at Pompeii, and it plays and sounds as good as new. Only played it 30 or so times since I bought it in '85.for the low low price of $59.95 + tax and shipping. Whoa!!

Later. Pepse.

Re: Off-topic... The Betacam chat page stays on topic because somebody's job might be riding on an answer before the 6 o'clock evening newscast. (No disrespect but I just had this vision of lead story footage captured on a V2000 and no chat page solution at 5:57 pm.) For us, Betamax is just an all-consuming hobby which causes others to whisper behind our backs. We need to invent these other interests and practice talking about other topics on this site so we can talk about non-Betamax things in "their" world. It is the only way we can avoid being locked away by a world that no longer understands our love of a consumer product that was built to outlast Billy Ray Cyrus. We compromise by talking about durable products they still accept, such as Buicks and Mazdas. But when they see my 2.2 Litre Turbo 7-seat Stretch Limo Chrysler K-Car they finally understand (that I need to be put in a quiet room somewhere).

Well, I think you're right. and I'm envious of Pepse for having a tape of Pink Floyd live at Pompei. All I have is a VERY much used rental of "The Delicate sound of thunder" on that other system. HOWEVER it's short enough to go on an L-750 at BIs, so, Pepse, I'm willing to copy if you are, let me know what tracks are on your tape, you should be able to figure out my Email unless you're a machine intelligence.

Well when say, black people gather together do you think all they talk about is the colour of their skin? Do Mexicans only talk about the grammatical nuances of Espanol ? We Beta people are just as much an ethninc minority as any other nowadays. That our identity is built around a commercial product doesn't make it any less a social phenomenon. That 'The Man' to us is a more dominant media format doesn't make our grievences agaist him any less pressing...

We are entering a new phase in cultural evolution....

Hi To Everyone! I haven't been reading or posting any message for a while. However, I DID NOTICEthat a few of you are looking at or considering the purchase of some older commercialBeta, 3/4", or VHS equipment. And as someone who owns lots of current model commercialrecorders, I think I should caution anyone considering the purchase of any of these oldclunkers to consider what you are buying. There is LOTS of old commercial gear around invery poor condition. In many cases - particularly gear from the 80s - new parts aredifficult if not impossible to find. And even if you can find a good used part, there isno guarantee it will will function the same way a new part will. After all, it may be coming from an item in eqully bad (if not worse) conditon. I will not even discuss the subject of finding competent and reliable repair peopleto work on commercial gear. Suffice it to say, that even in the top 25 TV markets it isdifficult to find a decent tech to work on VCRs anymore. (There are, however, lots of"hacks" who will hang onto your gear for weeks on end and still not completely "fix" your equipment.) As for duplication equipment, I'm always amazed at the number of sellers on E-Baywho NEVER post the number of hours that duplication VCRs have been used. Almost ALLcommercial duplication equipment has some type of read out that dislays the actual hoursit has been used. Anyone trying to sell Beta or VHS duplicators without indicating thenumber of hours of use is simply selling tired, old gear that has been run into the ground. Or worse yet, is selling gear that costs more to repair than it is worth. So maybe before you jump on that old 1985 Beta Editor - think about a few of theabove items before you bid.

Well as much as I think Hour meters are an neat idea for logging your VTRs use, they plug out just like a fuse in most cases, unlike the odometer in a car, which is tamper evident, you can even put the meter in backwards to clock it down, this is regualr practice once they pass 1000 hours, so you never know how long a given machine has been in service. The General Wear and Tear are a better indicator. HOwever, Edit decks are usually run into the ground with the cue/synct/play or record/cue/stop cycle, so anything sold as an edit suite that's got any obvious use is probably a no=no. A friend of mine is a VTR tech and he says he's seen piles and piles of new edit decks run into the ground in a year, requiring massive overhauls. FOr instance my SLO-1400 was a duplicator, and, though it shows about 800 hours on the gauge, it's physically beat but when I had it playing (Blown fuse, no mechanical issues) it played like you'd expect from a commercial machine.

I got an SLO-1800 w/ about 700 hours on the meter ( 200 or so of them added by me). Only problem I had was blown fuse that a trip to the RatShack took care of. Also had to flip the "hidden" Superbeta switch inside the unit. But I think that "Beta Tank" w/ just keep on recording. ;)

Nobody in my family has ever used the "PCM" function on our SL-HF600 in the 17 years we've owned it. I'm thinking about doing some PCM recording with it now, though. Who here has used the PCM function on your ßeta? How does the sound quality of PCM compare to that of regular ßeta hi-fi? And how many channels is it-is it still stereo or can you get multichannel surround sound out of it?

NOw I don't know anything about this but I presume that if you fed the PCM encoder a stereo source with encoded surround from a videotape/videodisc/whatever the encoded surround would go with the signal, but you'd really have to ask a Sony technician who knows where the encoded surround is on the audio signal and if the PCM recoder translates that to video.

The Japanese did have a Beta HiFi with a built-in PCM encoder, the PCM-HF10. It's a nice little machine but as far as I know, was not made available in the US. Betamax.TO has a picture of one in the Archive section, in the SL-HFR subsection.

The PCM/captions switch in the back of Sony VCRs was for turning off the dropout compensator so that PCM (or closed caption) recordings would play properly. The dropout compensator, when an error on the tape is found, takes the previous line from the signal and puts it over the error.

Stingy japs!

Will some lucky Brit be getting this under their tree?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1946301890

SL-F1 and TT -F1

Well Sean, I guess I am a machine intelligence. So-o-o-o, send me an email so we can get to business. Just for a teaser all the songs are PRE-Dark Side of the Moon; original copyright is 1972. I used to have the Delicate Sound of Thunder vid but somehow misplaced it. I was at that concert in '87 in Minneapolis, MN. So, yes I will definately trade a copy of DS of T for Pompeii.

On another note, does anybody have a copy of Alice Cooper's "The Nightmare"? It was a Holloween TV special from '75 and I used to have the Beta copy until it took a hike with DS of T. Basically The Nightmare was a 90 minute music video of his Welcome to my Nightmare album.

Later. Pepse.

Not me olive I have a fully working one with hvc2000p camera and portable power supply unit :) (and manuals)

Regarding the PCM post, to use the PCM function, you need an outboard PCM processor, like the Sony PCM -F1. It simply connects to the video I/O jacks and essentially turns the Beta deck into a DAT recorder. The PCM -F1 accepts digital audio data and converts it into a black & white video signal (i.e. black=0; white=1; for binary code), which is recorded on the tape (doesn't matter whether the beta deck is hifi or mono, no actual audio is recorded). Playback is just the opposite and produces CD-quality digital sound. I have one and used up some L-125 & L-250 tapes by recording audio on 'em. And a friend of mine in a Goth band uses a PCM -F1 /SL-2000 combo to archive audio masters once they're done.

Thanx for the advice on the PCM function. The SLV-R5UC I won in an eBay auction arrived today. It is truly the best VCR I've ever used. All tapes I have tried look great on it-VHS, S-VHS, S-VHS ET, SP, LP, EP, hifi or mono. Playing with the jog/shuttle and scanning at different speeds is fun. It is the only VHS-based VCR I have that has peak level meters for the audio, the only other ones I have that have them are the ßeta hi-fis. The different command modes is great because then I can make an editing team of my CCD-TRV87 camcorder (VTR2) my SLV-751HF VHS (VTR3) and the R5 (VTR1). (The camcorder to record and play back the raw home video footage, the R5 to create an S-VHS edit master, and the 751HF to make VHS copies of the master for family and friends) The remote in itself is like a handheld mini-computer, with an LCD display on it that reads out the date, time and other information.The only drawbacks I can find are that there are no insert editing buttons on the unit, only on the remote, you can't see the time display on the unit with the front panel closed, the calendar only runs through 2005, and the power supply does get hot, as some people mentioned. Also me and my parents got a kick out of the fact that the manual uses a ßetamax VCR as a pair-up unit on the diagrams of editing hookups. The manual is dated 1990 so it was 2 years after Sony announced it would add VHS decks to its VCR line-up.

The Manual for my SVO-140 also shows a Betamax VCR as a hookup example. an 840 or 860 "D" model. The 140 is the best VHS machine I've owned. only problemn is it's not HiFi. Otherwise it's very much like my 900.

Yes, I think my R5 manual shows one of the "D" Betas... the one with the front A/V input on the right?

Yes. but it's not the 870 because that has woodsides and it's not the 810 becase that's mono.

eeeeeeee!!!! hmmmmmm.. The children of the Home are quite anxious for their Christmas presents. Ooooooooo the SLV-R5UC is a nice deck!!!! me wants one now!

I also wonder if after 2005 it will go back to some obscure date such as Friday, January 01, 1904 or Monday, August 27, 1956... :) Mac owners know these dates if their PRAM batties have died. Hmmm... Oh WELL....

Well Since when I spent my time taking MACs apart (I have LOTS of MAC parts here, to support my G3 as it becomes legacy. not that I do anyting with it....) I have lots of those batteries, ther are now lots of motherboards that will show those dates. My SVO-140's date stops at I think 2005 also, I wonder what date it will think it is then. Probably 1990, but there is a cycle of years that ahve the dates the same so all I'll have to do is match it and then the only problem that might be is Timer recording around the change of the years. Oh, and everyone here with PCs, turn off the automatic clock adjust for DST and do it yourself. the clock change has been known to cause issues with many programs.

The 15-year calendar is my only complaint with Sony VCRs, other than that they beat the crap out of all other brands of VCR I've used (Sanyo, NEC, Panasonic, RCA and Zenith) in terms of both performance and features. The calendar on the R5 is 1990-2005 and on the SLV-751HF it's 1993-2008. The SL-HF600 ßeta has no internal calendar. Both my Penisonics (PV-9451 and PV-VS4821) both have calendars that run through 2096, which is pretty funny in the sense that their cheap plastic mechanisms will have fallen apart long before that and the Sonys might actually still be running provided Sony keeps making routine replacement parts and provided anybody bothers to keep a videotape machine around then. Maybe in a musem somewhere.

Kill telemarketers! Die! Die! Die!

Download this file...

http://home.attbi.com/~dakine/sound/tones.wav

at this page...

http://home.attbi.com/~dakine/defeat.htm

Well I'll have one around then, if I'm around then. Think about it. We're not just clinging to Betamax because it's the best, when it has some serious competitions, but we just like it. I like my tape machines, I'll use them forever. I've costomized my computer to the point where I'll probably never upgrade the whole thing at a go anymore, I can add hard drives ad infinitum, on the SCSI and IDE controllers, I could have around 20 hard drives. I wonder, what does a computer do when it runs out of drive letters? Does it go to typographical symbols?

I've seen it once, Sean.. it does the same thing that your cable channels do... starts over at AA and goes to ZZ. After that, I have no idea. But, that problem gets put off every few months with increases in the size of HDD's.. I started out with a 1.8GB drive in my machine, running doublespace to get 3.6GB worth of data on it... then it crashed.. OUCH. Next drive I owned was a 4.6GB, then a 10 , 30, 40, 45, 60, 80, 100, and now I have a computer with 2 120GB drives, three 100GB and an 80GB, plus my 48x16x48 CD-R/RW and a 2x DVD-R/RW. That first PC only had 32MB of RAM, this one has 512MB, which is all that Windows based OS' can deal with (I've had as much as 1GB in here, and although the MB and Windows could see it, it errored out all the time.)

Well on Macs you only get 7 SCSI addresses - six after you count the computer. I think there's a fixed limit on PCs too

And I use Betamax because I've been using Betamax and I see no reason to change now....

When DVD-RW costs under Û100 maybe I'll deign to start using it...

I"ve had very litle luck with optical disc recordings so I'll stick with tape as long as it satisfies me. I had gotten to wondering about that when I realized my SCSI card could address someting like 16 devices (THANKS BRENDA!) and I think you can get 4 on an IDE and another 4 at least on the floppy bus, so I got to thinking, just how would it work...

In my machine, my IDE devices are pretty much only limited by the number of PCI slots I have open.. I buy expansion cards for Ultra ATA-133 drives, and that gives me four more IDE channels per card.. of course, you have virtually unlimited drive capabilities with USB2, but what a mess... can you just imagine all those daisy-chained USB2 hubs???? ROFL!!!

Also, a standard SCSI card is 8 channels.. 0 through 7. That may be why that card can address 16 devices, because it has SCSI and SCSI2 ports on it.. I really don't know much about SCSI, I've never had more than a device or two connected to it.. BTW... I have a nice 12x SCSI CD-RW drive that I could let go pretty reasonably, or maybe trade for something interesting.. :) I think it's actually 12x write x 4x re-write by 32x read..

Anyone see the latest round of proposals for rebuilding the Trade Centre?

http://www.cnn.com/interactive/us/0212/wtc.site.rebuild/frameset.exclude.html

Here is a commentary I posted in my journal

http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=frannywentzel&itemid=28840

The original design was never very popular but looking at the defecation being offered today it comes off as the paragon of art and beauty...

You don't see a lot of these...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1946555270

SLP-100 BI industrial player-only Betamax.

Already a snail has attached to it...

word on the street has it that the slvr5 was the best svhs that sony ever made and that it was discontinued only because it was too expensive to manufacture.

Why aren't we sticking to topiccccc hereeee guysssss?!!!! Take a look at the V2000, Betacam and U-matic pages for their conduct!

All of you say a prayer for me because in about 3 hours I'm dead! Our precal final is today and I might fail the semester! :(:(:(:(

Too bad you don't have a text pager Jesse. I bet I could find a math professor to give you a little assistance.

"...if you, didn't know I would've taught you" Sobibor inmate to a young arrival he'd told to tell the guards he knew a trade.

I agree about the Trade Towers, Franny. None of the new designs look like buildings. (Well, maybe one does, a little) and they're all laughable. Anyhow, I tried to pry the snail off of the SLP-100 because it would be good for playing back my SLO-340's tapes but with my limited cash arround this time of year it was hopeless. And good luck to you, Jesse. my psychology final is in an hour and a half, but after this week I'm through with finals. College is great!

HISONY SLC 9 BETA VIDEOSMALL COG HAS BROKENPLEASE CAN ANYONE TELL ME IF THERE IS A COMPATABLE CASSETTE CART FROM ANOTHER CHEAPER BETA MACHINE WHICH I COULD USE THE PARTS 2 FIX MY C9. ANY IDEAS THANKS

Just FYI, it says in the rules not to post in all caps. Since they have a tendency to shut this place down faster than you can say "404" I'd advise you to be careful.

404.

To John Lucas;

Try looking for similar gears at a hobby shop - I think the PALsite repair guide mentions those gears. Otherwise you might want to try bidding on E-bay for an American SL-2500 or SL-2700 for equivelent parts. They go for a lot so try getting one that's nonfunctional.

Speaking of the C9 /2500, why do only a few American Machines meant for consumers have Linear stereo? I think only the SL-HF-1000 and the Marantz VCR have it, but overseas Linear stereo was fair game?

I would like a little information, I have a Like new, Sony Betamovie BMC-550, AF, CCD. Still in the original box with all the original papers, charger etc. It was used by a local buiss. to make 5 short vids. indoors. Then it was returned to it's box and never use again. I also have the player that was used to view the 5 vid's that were produced. It is a like new Sony SL-2000 still in it's original box with all its original paperwork. I also have the 5 vid's that were made and the one tape that was never opened. I am just wondering what the items are worth. Any body got any idea ?