[78-L] Kinescopes (WAS Average Age)

[Alan Bunting]

Maybe it was an Akai:
 
http://www.dcvideo.com/obsolete-video-formats/quarter-inch-akai.html
 
Alan Bunting

--- On Wed, 17/11/10, Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com> wrote:


From: Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com>
Subject: Re: [78-L] Kinescopes (WAS Average Age)
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Date: Wednesday, 17 November, 2010, 16:42


From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> There was also a machine that used open reel quarter inch tape
> in the late 70s. I only saw one in home use..anyone know what
> it was? Seems to me it would record for less than a half hour. dl

It might have been Sanyo.  Whatever the brand, I have one in the
warehouse.  The news program was using one when I arrived here in 1978
and I got it with the camera and case when they upgraded to something
real.  

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com