urgent: last call for reel-to-reel video

[Brian MacWhinney]

Dear Colleagues,
     It appears that we are now just about at the end of the rope in  
terms of our ability to rescue by digitization any data from the 1970s  
and early 1980s that was recorded using the half-inch reel-to-reel  
video of that time.  The problem is that the machines required to play  
these tapes are now virtually all non-functional.   And there are no  
"new" units of this type that one can purchase.  I have been working  
with Canaan Media in New Jersey to rescue old audio and video through  
digitization.  The old reel-to-reel audio is not at all a problem and  
the machines that read these tapes will last still for decades.   
However, the Sony and Toshiba machines that read the half-inch helical  
tapes seem to be more sensitive.  Canaan Media has three of the Sony  
AV-3650 machines, but none of them are operational.  They have asked  
me to post a note to info-childes asking if anyone has operational  
machines like the Sony AV-3650.  If so, we would be happy to pay for  
shipping costs to send these to New Jersey.
     Along the same lines, if you have tapes of this type and hope to  
be able to recover the data on them, we are now close to the end of  
the road.  The CHILDES Project can help on this, if there are  
transcripts, and if we can locate surviving machines.  Otherwise, we  
may have to decide that this media type is now officially dead.
    Many thanks.

--Brian MacWhinney

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