Re: Vacuum Cleaners from Outer Space


Jeff Liebermann wrote:

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.


Vacuum cleaners were available to any unit and department. Air
compressors weren't. The only thing that would have justified our
requisition would be if we used the original Ampex R-R VTR, which
required a filtered and dehydrated air source for the tape handler.


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:


I saw a lot of studios with an open pint can of freon based head
cleaner sitting open, with a flux brush to wipe the heads several times
a day. They used to sell it in five gallon cans, specifically for VTR
use.


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