Re: Vacuum Cleaners from Outer Space

On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 18:20:26 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell"
<mike.terrell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Vacuum cleaners were easy to get. We weren't authorized to have an
air compressor without a 2" Ampex R-R video tape recorder on site.

I don't understand the connection between the vacuum cleaner and the
video recorder.

Incidentally, in college, I helped keep the AV studio alive. Standard
ritual for operating Ampex helical scan recorderers was to have an
ecologically incorrect can of freon head cleaner handy, and to spray
the self-clogging heads when the video got noisy:
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbqd_43UGoo>


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