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From: Kevin Gleeson on 12 Apr 2010 01:57 On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 13:38:07 +0800, "Fraser Johnston" <ftrust(a)iinet.net.au> wrote: > >"George W Frost" <georgewfrost(a)gmail.com> wrote in message >news:xagun.17374$pv.11833(a)news-server.bigpond.net.au... > >> That is fine Kev that all these discoveries have been made, but, I fail to >> see where it is going to benefit the population to know how the "Big Bang " >> happened and what they can do with the information, if ever they get it. >> I can understand electronic and mechanical inventions, but again, I fail to >> see the advantage of finding out what or how something happened several >> million years ago. > >Hopefully it would help them to get over the whole "god" thing. > >Fraser Who is this "god" person anyway? Kev
From: BT Humble on 12 Apr 2010 03:13 Kevin Gleeson wrote: > Again, that sounds like a U-Matic. Developed by Sony, although there > was another format before that (again Sony) which eludes my memory at > the moment. And if it was only B/W then it actually does sound like > the one that preceded U-Matic. Now you mention it, I think my school > had one of them as well. My first school had some kind of reel-to-reel video player. I don't remember too much about it, I was only 5 years old at the time. BTH -- Posted at www.usenet.com.au
From: theo on 12 Apr 2010 06:02 On Apr 12, 3:13 pm, YnRAaHVtYmxldG93bi5vcmc=(a)REGISTERED_USER_usenet.com.au (BT Humble) wrote: > My first school had some kind of reel-to-reel video player. I don't > remember too much about it, I was only 5 years old at the time. We had a video disc system at work, which required a NTSC TV and used 14" video discs. That was in the 80's Theo
From: Zebee Johnstone on 12 Apr 2010 06:34 In aus.motorcycles on Mon, 12 Apr 2010 03:02:17 -0700 (PDT) theo <theodoreb(a)bigpond.com.au> wrote: > On Apr 12, 3:13?pm, > YnRAaHVtYmxldG93bi5vcmc=(a)REGISTERED_USER_usenet.com.au (BT Humble) > wrote: > >> My first school had some kind of reel-to-reel video player. ?I don't >> remember too much about it, I was only 5 years old at the time. > > We had a video disc system at work, which required a NTSC TV and used > 14" video discs. That was in the 80's > I worked for a mob that sold laser disc players. One of the really sad things is that the UK govt put a lot of money and effort into a modern Domesday Boke effort to map the UK as a resource for schools. And put it on laser disc. It was a sensible choice then, CDs were still in the future, DVDs definitely so. But finding a usable copy and a player to play it on... Zebee
From: BT Humble on 12 Apr 2010 19:44
theo wrote: > > On Apr 12, 3:13?pm, > YnRAaHVtYmxldG93bi5vcmc=(a)REGISTERED_USER_usenet.com.au (BT Humble) > wrote: > > > My first school had some kind of reel-to-reel video player. ?I don't > > remember too much about it, I was only 5 years old at the time. > > We had a video disc system at work, which required a NTSC TV and used > 14" video discs. That was in the 80's > > Theo This was in 1977-78. Hell, for all I remember it might have been some kind of film projector that projected onto a tv-style screen, like those old slide viewers. I'm pretty sure that the feeding process involved wrapping the tape around a shiny metal drum though. BTH -- Posted at www.usenet.com.au |