Posted by Ed Mullen on 11/29/07 01:54

Blinky the Shark wrote:
> Ed Mullen wrote:
>> Blinky the Shark wrote:
>
>>> Did you do sneakernet? Going down to the bus station for programs
>>> coming to you on 2" tape? :)
>> LOL. Yes! Quad tapes! Some of my earliest memories are of editing
>> shows together using two (or three) quad machines "loosely" synchronized
>> (pre SMPTE time code) by an RCA TEP (Tape Editing Programmer). And a
>> video tech with arms stretched wide to try and hit the Start buttons on
>> both machines (playback and record) at the same time. In fact, I
>
> Ape arms. :)

<g> Yes! Uh, wasn't that an actual "technical term" back then?
>>> This post was brought to you by the letters B and R, and the number 8.
>> ROFLMAO!!! The worst was the taxi driver in the Electric Company street
>> sequence that ran once every show for a year or more. First time I saw
>> him I went: "Holy crap! That's me!!!" Of course, when I asked my
>
> No, he was making a lot more money.
>
> But you were both having fun. Admit it. :)

How can I not?

Yes, I was having a great time back then. Poor. But having fun!
Sports remotes freelancing for ABC and independents. Hanging out the
door of a remote truck wearing three headsets and a telephone and
yelling at AT&T Network Ops, the two Bell NY guys lying under the truck,
being yelled at by the producer when we were 20 minutes to air time for
the Army Notre Dame game and we lost the feed to the network. And
watching Paul Hornung in the booth upstairs over the monitors slamming
down vodkas. Oh, and it was the weekend that the Watergate scandal
broke and people started resigning from the Nixon admin. And the
production company didn't guarantee our hotel reservations so we had no
place to sleep. Yep, we were having just a fabulous time that weekend!
But, now that I think about it, it was fun! :-)

Now I'm retired and I'm still having fun. But I have a lot more money.
I sure hope that cab driver became a CEO and he's having this much fun.

BTW, oddly enough, I drove a cab for a living for about a year back
then. One of the strangest things I've ever done. I felt like an
unlicensed psychotherapist or a bartender, never sure which. People
just started talking and told me all sorts of things about themselves.
Geez. And this was before the phrase "Too Much Information!" became
popular.

Oh well, now we've totally bored everyone to tears. But, thanks for the
fun trip down memory lane!

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