Comments on: An Interesting Mentor Linkage http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1451 Jason Scott's Weblog Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:59:02 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Andrew Mudd http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1451/comment-page-1#comment-5442 Andrew Mudd Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:46:44 +0000 http://ascii.textfiles.com/?p=1451#comment-5442 I hate being a pedant, I really do. But since I'm currently involved in copying a shit-ton of up to 30 year old U-Matic tapes to DVCAM tapes, I can tell you this: They're 3/4", not 1/2". All variants of Beta and VHS are 1/2". I feel like such a dweeby spaz now. I hate being a pedant, I really do. But since I’m currently involved in copying a shit-ton of up to 30 year old U-Matic tapes to DVCAM tapes, I can tell you this: They’re 3/4″, not 1/2″. All variants of Beta and VHS are 1/2″.

I feel like such a dweeby spaz now.

]]> By: fuzz http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1451/comment-page-1#comment-5441 fuzz Sun, 05 Oct 2008 14:38:33 +0000 http://ascii.textfiles.com/?p=1451#comment-5441 It still blows me away that from the networks that they're creating in that video, I can now watch the very same video sat in my bed a thousand miles away, over a packet switched network that would be conceptually familiar to a network engineer from this time, but the practical execution would have been almost incomprehendable. It still blows me away that from the networks that they’re creating in that video, I can now watch the very same video sat in my bed a thousand miles away, over a packet switched network that would be conceptually familiar to a network engineer from this time, but the practical execution would have been almost incomprehendable.

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