elvis gump
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I should clarify and give credit where I ran across that carpet sweeper bit.
https://mobile.twitter.com/claytonhickman/status/520556392193998848
The reason I offer things like a teletype, character generator or teleprompter keyboard is these are the sorts of things that most vintage keyboard and hardware collectors probably wouldn't ever run across anymore. If they were anyplace today they'd be in a museum of broadcast gear or in forgotten basement attic.
In the early 80s, right around the time I was discovering Doctor Who in college we had such a storeroom of cast of "donations" of 70s & earlier equipment from tv stations and our PBS broadcaster that had been piling up like a reverse value hord. We cannibalized multiple U-Matic 3/4" tape decks to make edit suites, had two Chryon like character generators that had keyboards like this designed by people who didn't type for a living & so on. There were boxes & boxes of orphans - cables and bits the seemed to go to nothing else. Bins & crates of stuff like that keyboard. I feel sure 35+ years ago I could have very well held a keyboard like that in my hand as late many a night we tinkered with stuff to see if it worked. I know by 1985 a lot of it went into the dumpster to make room in the studio. If only I had the malice of forethought to bury it all in a time capsule for today it would be valuable.
So anyone that knows some old irascible cranks who used to work in tv back in the 70s might hit paydirt asking them instead of vintage computer collectors. At 56 I'm too young to go back the crucial decade as I was a babe from the sticks blinded by the newfangled Betacam & that modern marvel Macintosh that was sucking the oxygen from my brain cells.
https://mobile.twitter.com/claytonhickman/status/520556392193998848
The reason I offer things like a teletype, character generator or teleprompter keyboard is these are the sorts of things that most vintage keyboard and hardware collectors probably wouldn't ever run across anymore. If they were anyplace today they'd be in a museum of broadcast gear or in forgotten basement attic.
In the early 80s, right around the time I was discovering Doctor Who in college we had such a storeroom of cast of "donations" of 70s & earlier equipment from tv stations and our PBS broadcaster that had been piling up like a reverse value hord. We cannibalized multiple U-Matic 3/4" tape decks to make edit suites, had two Chryon like character generators that had keyboards like this designed by people who didn't type for a living & so on. There were boxes & boxes of orphans - cables and bits the seemed to go to nothing else. Bins & crates of stuff like that keyboard. I feel sure 35+ years ago I could have very well held a keyboard like that in my hand as late many a night we tinkered with stuff to see if it worked. I know by 1985 a lot of it went into the dumpster to make room in the studio. If only I had the malice of forethought to bury it all in a time capsule for today it would be valuable.
So anyone that knows some old irascible cranks who used to work in tv back in the 70s might hit paydirt asking them instead of vintage computer collectors. At 56 I'm too young to go back the crucial decade as I was a babe from the sticks blinded by the newfangled Betacam & that modern marvel Macintosh that was sucking the oxygen from my brain cells.
