urgent: last call for reel-to-reel video

[Laura Gaytan]

Dear Dr. MacWhinney:
One brother of Dr. Berruecos has a very professional company of
videoservices. I will consult him and if he has the machine you need, he
will contact you inmediately.
Laura Gaytán.

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Brian MacWhinney <macw at cmu.edu> wrote:

>
> 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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