To: Ms. Blumkin who wrote (3062 ) 7/27/1998 1:10:00 AM From: flickerful Respond to of 17679
andrew, hal, hugh, gus, jubimer, swampfox, ed.....everyone. i hadn't done a search in a awhile, (except to note the below site posted to hal) so i thought now might be a good time, given the quiet period on thread... re: anton/bauer, they're a high end reseller currently featuring prominently ampex products on the net; the names may be familiar to some of you as they are both noted engineers. anyway, the searches i just completed (one ampex storage, one vintage) produced more hits than i've ever obtained ( discounting the usual redundancy, of course). the variety of information is a treasure chest of public relations mileage , if not a source for a clever trade campaign... it's very hard to accept the market's aversion to ampex after observing its remarkable sphere of industry influence... finally, i hope you enjoy the following; i look forward to everyone's insights. randy meldrum.co.uk mtsu.edu cnn.com [a partial excerpt from the book....Nixon guided Khrushchev to a room equipped with an RCA closed-circuit color television and Ampex videotape machine. As they entered the room, they could see themselves on a monitor. They were being taped, so they would immediately be able to see a replay of their live performance. This was the high-water mark in the history of international diplomatic narcissism. Nixon and Khrushchev stared into the monitor, waved and grinned as if they thought themselves very pretty, as if they were two little boys regarding themselves in the shiny chrome of the family toaster. ]rcc.ryerson.ca [probably the most dated in the list, but great backgroun on "freeze-frame"
]web.syr.edu [dated 6.10.98 and very technical]sun.com [backup & storage management from sun]theband.hiof.no [the official website for the band ...i couldn't find the ampex mention, but thought the posts were a trip, so i included it anyway....] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [the first two links are an online auction... the rest are either sellers of vintage products, or recording/post-production entities, with one more historical site.] (there were more.....hha.)digibid.com digibid.com proaudiodesign.com recycler.com recordingstudiomenu.com musicianmag.com recordingstudiomenu.com state.tn.us intoitaudio.com technicalpress.com technicalpress.com triadstudios.com islandnet.com odysseyprosound.com