--- Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on 4/29/05 3:55 AM, at_man_and_brahman at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > --- In [email protected], "Bob > Brigante" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> There's the story, like many others, of > >>> Maharishi being shown VCRs years ago > >>> to determine a standard for the Movement > >>> to use. He drifted from the business > >>> discussion when he asked to have the inner > >>> mechanics the VCR explained to him, in > >>> minute detail. After endless questions, he > >>> pointed out ways in which the machinery > >>> could be improved that delighted the > >>> engineers. > >>> > >> > >> That's a fascinating story, just not true. MMY > did indeed look at the > >> innards of a VCR, and made the highly technical > comment, "too > >> complicated," which inspired some TMers to try to > do a less > >> complicated VCR, with zero results. > >> > > > > That's the way I heard it. It's safe to say > > that the real story differs from both of > > out versions. > > One interesting note here. The Veda Vision crew: > Eric Sandell, Flash > Pflaumer, and others spent over $1 million in their > Livingston Manor > workshop trying to develop the first VCR. They did > have a working model, but > it was so sensitive that the shaking of the ground > from a truck driving up > the driveway would disrupt it's functioning. > Needless to say, someone > developed a better one, which the Movement ended up > using. At one point, the > TMO was 2nd only to the US Military as a purchaser > of videotape. But it was > an old, reel-to-real Beta format, not the cassettes > we now use.
I worked for Ed Beckly in Fairfield in the video department. I was in charge of ordering video tape, both 3/4" U-matic for dupes and 1" master tapes. We went through video tape like sh_t through a goose, as they say. So Herb Prechtel told me to estimate what we would need over the next six months and to order it from Ampex. I crunched some numbers and came-up with a $250,000 order for video tape! Herb said it was fine so I called Ampex. It took awhile for Ampex to realize that it wasn't a joke. It turns out it was the largest order of video tape in the companies history. Of course Beckly collapsed before we used all the tape. Man, was it a lot of video tape! -Peter > > > > > > To subscribe, send a message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Or go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ > and click 'Join This Group!' > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
