Date   : Sun, 27 Sep 2009 01:05:56 +0200
From   : rick@... (Rick Murray)
Subject: Leccy @ Acorn World '09

Alex Taylor wrote:

> I eventually sold it on eBay, for the grand sum of 10p!

Ummm... Aren't you supposed to make a profit on stuff you sell?


>  the controls were a little bit different from the usual Japanese
 > stuff that everyone's now accustomed to.

What, you mean like back in the days of giant piano key controls? My 
first ever Beta had this, plus a MASSIVE (and I mean about 6" tall all 
in) mains synchronous motor for the head drum. I dunno how it locked the 
drum to a TV picture. There was a brief hiccup on starting, so I think 
it was more a matter the TV adjusting to the VCR. Thing ran hot too. But 
at least those Piano keys had a satisfying 'clunk'.

Main memory? Soooo much noise on threading and unthreading. The C-wrap 
is technically superior, but a fair bit slower to do, than the 
cheap'n'cheerful VHS-like M-wrap.
[and if you have no idea what that means, think of it like the video 
equivalent of how to do a tortilla wrap correctly :-) ]


> I recently picked up some ex-rental films on V2000. I'm fairly sure
> they must be quite rare because I've never seen such things before.

Don't you mean R at RE? :-) Isn't video rental what eventually pushed VHS 
ahead of the better Beta? Beta wanted some class in what was given as 
rental on the format, but the VHS guys aimed for the lowest common 
denominator and allowed any old smut on VHS.
That probably is quite an allegory on society in general, but it's gone 
1am so I can't be bothered thinking about it. Cue Leonard Cohen's 
"Everybody Knows" and just leave it at that...


Best wishes,

Rick.

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