vxo , vor 6 Tagen

@foone if they need belts for it or repair, Zin VTR Works is fairly local

mediaarchaeologylab , vor 8 Tagen

@foone sometimes

foone OP , vor 8 Tagen

@mediaarchaeologylab yeah that makes sense

foone OP , vor 8 Tagen

I've got a mysterious U-matic carrying case containing a 3M UCA 60 Videocassette Color Plus.
All that's on the label is "5-01-86 DS".

dj2mn , vor 8 Tagen

@foone my dad acquired dozens of empty u-matic cases back in the 90s, and didn't know what to do with them until we worked out that they were a perfect fit for [a small number I forget exactly how many] CD jewel cases. It all still ended up in landfill of course, but a few years later than might have originally.

Kavus , vor 7 Tagen

@foone
I'm also curious what's on it!

vxo , vor 6 Tagen

@foone if your deck doesn't grok it, mine might.

What made me think I'm the only one around here who has their own U-Matic? I kinda wish mine could record too though, I'd put video through it for aesthetic degradation

1000millimeter , vor 8 Tagen

@foone Wait. You have a job that includes working with U-Matic tapes?

foone OP , vor 8 Tagen

@1000millimeter I work for the internet archive!

1000millimeter , vor 8 Tagen

@foone Cool! Since when?

foone OP , vor 8 Tagen

@1000millimeter April, I think? It's a temporary thing for now. I've mainly been scanning supreme court microfiche

Pappy , vor 8 Tagen

@foone Holy moly! I haven't touched a tape in years. Barbaric!

NanoRaptor , vor 8 Tagen

@foone The last time something even close to that happened to me was 1988.

foone OP , vor 8 Tagen

@NanoRaptor Sometimes I'm not sure what decade I live in.

specifically, I can't figure out if it's the 80s or the 90s.
Right now I've got a laptop, but I'm scanning microfiche, so... I'm leaning early 90s?

NanoRaptor , vor 8 Tagen

@foone I think you live fully.

Most of us use cars in the last decade, houses from the last 50, clothes from the last 5, computers from the last 3, food from the last year.

But some of us are dedicated enough to pick through it all. Consciously and fully.

(more earnest than I expected to be on a friday morning tbh. Except maybe the food thing. But if I could get ETA Ripples here easily again I would...)

foone OP , vor 8 Tagen

@NanoRaptor I try to! Even if it's in the past.

SvenGeier , vor 8 Tagen

@foone @NanoRaptor
Back To The Future was released in 1985. In it, the protagonists travel 30 back in time to 1955. The modern-day comparison would be someone traveling from 2024 to 1994.
#justsaying