Ive found a very old vcr tape made by CE VIDEO Charles Edwards about Ivanhoe the last manual telephone exchange cut over to automatic. Hay had been converted a few years earlier.
I remember working on the project along with Hay lines staff and many others I was installing the solar powered Digital radio telephones DRCS back in 1989 a long time before mobile telephones, the vcr tape and recorder was stored in the garage for the last 27 years I guess it missed most of the garage sales and moving house.
The real challenge was trying to get the vcr to work as all of the rubber rollers had cracked and gone hard, I managed to convert some of the tape about 6minutes of a 30 minute production .
The video quality is pretty good considering the way it was stored for the last 27 years magnetic tape breaks down over time a few more years and this would have been lost.
8 сен 2024
