Keith, at 19:02 on Thu, Jul 28 1994, you wrote to Bill Grimsley ...

 KR> actually the us post office put out a special stamp to 
 KR> commemorate national engineer's week once - with a picture of 
 KR> kasey jones on it (-8

 BG> Two pertinent questions immediately come to mind:  (1) Was Casey 
 BG> Jones a real person, and (2) did they really spell it with a "K" 
 BG> ??

 KR> (1) i dont know

Try harder boy |-)

 KR> (2) what they do is immaterial, i do (i've been taking lessons 
 KR> from you know who)  (-8

Ah, so you _are_ trying harder boy |-)

 BG> BTW, I've heard no howls of protest to date, so can I safely 
 BG> assume that your HiFi Akai is still functioning after I got 
 BG> amongst it while I was in Sydney in June ??

 KR> yes, i must apologise for not thanking you. 

Not at all.  I thought you hadn't said anything because it was rooted.

 KR> it has performed perfectly except for one tape (u2 zoo tv) which 
 KR> plays without any problem at the local video shop, but the akai 
 KR> looses lock every 30 secs or so, just as if it is loosing tracking 
 KR> then it comes back in. 'spose it could be one of the copy protection 
 KR> schemes screwing it up. plays everything else ok though. 

Pretty unlikely.  My guess is that the original was possibly recorded on a
machine with a dirty CTL head, and when played on another VCR, the CTL
pulses are too low for it to lock the servo.  Why it should only happen
with your VS-15 is beyond me though.

 KR> i've been copying some of the hi-8 stuff onto it, god it looks rough 
 KR> compared to the original, i'm glad i didn't buy a vhs-c.

Do you recall our original conversation just before you bought the Hi-8,
when I suggested that despite its lower market penetration compared with
VHS-C, that Hi-8 was still a superior system?  Well now you know it's true.
;-)

Regards, Bill

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