i dont believe that vhs tapes will die off that quickly
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the 8 track cartridges fail from old age "lubricant and pressure pad failure"----- Original Message -----
From: REX ATHEY
To: TekScopes@...
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 3:57 PM
Subject: Re: [TekScopes] Re: Tek 528 Waveform monitor, what is it?
From: mmoss111
To: TekScopes@...
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 1:41 PM
Subject: [TekScopes] Re: Tek 528 Waveform monitor, what is it?
This appears to be true with respect to all NTSC test equipment.
I have a ton of signal generators and various NTSC monitors and I
wonder what they will be worth soon with digital TV coming?
Kinda like my 8-track test tapes and now even my VCR test equipment is
getting a lot less use (almost none). My whole shop will be worthless
soon!! Boo-hoo.....
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Our station just moved into it's new all digital facility and there is still a good bit of the analog stuff that we brought over from our old facility. I hoping they let us go through the old place soon and salvage lots of goodies. NTSC analog probably won't dissappear completely because there is so much of it around and a few of us engineers still left that want the stuff (and use it). There's a guy in Nevada that has "Quadraplex Park" which is a whole bunch of 2" video tape machines which he restored and has working in excellent condition.
Right now I'm looking for an extender card for a 1410 NTSC generator (and 1410 generators and parts for that matter). I just got another one of these from Oregon and should be getting another one soon (old building, I hope). WE used to have one, but someone apparently borrowed it and didn't put it back in it's pouch in the service manual. Learned a lot from this machine and still learning a lot more.
Rex
