OT: just for those intersted about analog tape

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 10:18:06PM -0500, Bill Vermillion wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 06 17:37 , while denying his reply is spam, Walter Vaughan 
> prattled on endlessly saying: 
> > John Esak wrote:
> > >Is this true?  If so, how would anyone ever get new tape for their old
> > >machines?
> 
> > JE, you of all people should realize that this is capitalism at work. 
> > Someone will cobble up a line that can make the tape at a PROFIT. It 
> > doesn't take 250 people to make high quality tape.
> 
[ ... ]
> > I mourn the fact that they appeared to stop fighting 1-1/2
> > years ago. This company saw the writing on the wall. They just
> > gave up, hoping that tomorrow never came. But, their last new
> > product announcement was in 2003 for professional firewire
> > drives.
> 
> That was Quantegy or someone else?

The Company Formerly Known As Ampex.

But they said out loud in public many years ago that they would still
manufacture 2" quad videotape *as long as their was a machine running
in production anywhere in the world*. 

I believe they've dumped out on that promise.

Typical

Cheers,
-- jra
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