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Re: 16" LPs
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roy Webb [SMTP:rwebb@LIBRARY.UTAH.EDU]
> Sent: Friday, January 21, 2000 7:05 AM
> To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
> Subject: Re: 16" LPs
>
> Regarding the request for help with LPs:
>
>
> > 3. Can anyone recommend a vendor that has the equipment and
> > expertise to do the copying at a reasonable cost?
> >
> > Thank you in advance for any help you can give.
>
>
> I had to laugh at this, and certainly mean no reflection on Schlessinger
> (Ms.); but was it so long ago that we all had "equipment and
> expertise" with turntables and records, as we used to call them?
> Now they are history, both literally and figuratively. Does that
> mean I'm getting old? We have an ancient turntable, big enough to
> manage those big transcription disks, that I treat like a holy grail or
> something because I'm afraid if it breaks down I'll never find another
> one.
>
> Since it's Friday, traditionally a low-key day on ARCHIVES-L,
> another example of this same thing that made me laugh. We
> recently had a request to look through some football films from the
> 1960s. I didn't have time to do it, but I have a young man who
> works for me, a student, about 22. So I took him into our AV room
> and sat him down. Here's the film, here's the Craig viewer, I told
> him; he looked at me completely blank. He's plenty smart but had
> never ever been exposed to a 16mm film in school or anywhere
> else. So I had to show him how to thread it, and so on; he was
> fascinated and kept saying over and over "this is so cool!" I
> thought back to all those days as a kid, when the teacher would
> announce a film, and there was always one classmate who could
> thread and run the projector; and how watching a film meant the
> lights were out, so you could doze or cut up with your friends.
>
> I guess I am getting old; as I always say, though, when you
> consider the alternative to getting old, it's not so bad.
>
> Happy Friday,
>
>
> Roy Webb, C.A.
> Multimedia Archivist
> Special Collections
> J. Willard Marriott Library
> University of Utah
> Salt Lake City, Utah 84112
> (801) 585-3073 // fax (801) 585-3976
> rwebb@library.utah.edu
>
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