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mZ Anderson invented a method of electricial connection commonly used by the solar industry with perhaps other applications.
 
You suckered me into watchinisk g a video...
What electrical connector?
That was very evil of me and I beg for your forgiveness BUT that's the risk one takes when foraying into the category of humor ... (maniacal laughter) ...
 
I loved her in 80... just back from Iran, and she was on tv! between karp and battlestar... my schedule was full... and we had a VCR at home and I could record em and watch over and over...

Anybody old enough to remember bragging at school about having a VCR?
BETA all the way!
 
I don't know about her electrical connector, but I'm of the correct age she sure made me 'Surge' and overheat!

Some friends of mine (in the Marines) had a beach party in the Florida Keys a bunch of years back, everyone got plastered and passed out.
In the morning a very nice lady was waking them up to see if they were OK since they partied on, and passed out on her property, and it was Loni Anderson.

Instead of calling the cops, getting mad, she made sure no one was dead, then recommended they use the beach shower and recommended a donut/coffee shop/diner not too far away.
Told them as long as they didn't trash the place, she didn't mind...
 
I loved her in 80... just back from Iran, and she was on tv! between karp and battlestar... my schedule was full... and we had a VCR at home and I could record em and watch over and over...

Anybody old enough to remember bragging at school about having a VCR?
BETA all the way!
I remember the vcr and previous to the vcr the super 8 and reel to reel. Beta seemed to be used in the early days mostly in schools, and there is an interesting history regarding why VHS eventually won out over BETA as the preferred standard for videos. I'm also proud to say that even though I owned several VCR's and operated a great many more, I have never, ever, not even once set the clock on one!
 
I have never, ever, not even once set the clock on one!

THAT'S FUNNY!
I'm of that age also, why did EVERYTHING need a digital clock?
VCR, TV, Microwave, Telephone, coffee maker...

I used to set it at 12:01 just so it would STOP FLASHING!
Didn't matter what time of day it was, the flashing drove me nuts...

The ONLY timer in the house that meant anything was the COFFEE MAKER!
COFFEE! COFFEE! COFFEE!

No life before coffee, JUMP-STARTS the brain, KICK-STARTS the colon! ;)
 
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[That is s a sweet story, I'm sure she isQUOTE="JeepHammer, post: 13789, member: 2226"]
I don't know about her electrical connector, but I'm of the correct age she sure made me 'Surge' and overheat!

Some friends of mine (in the Marines) had a beach party in the Florida Keys a bunch of years back, everyone got plastered and passed out.
In the morning a very nice lady was waking them up to see if they were OK since they partied on, and passed out on her property, and it was Loni Anderson.

Instead of calling the cops, getting mad, she made sure no one was dead, then recommended they use the beach shower and recommended a donut/coffee shop/diner not too far away.
Told them as long as they didn't trash the place, she didn't mind...
[/QUOTE]

I don't know about her electrical connector, but I'm of the correct age she sure made me 'Surge' and overheat!

Some friends of mine (in the Marines) had a beach party in the Florida Keys a bunch of years back, everyone got plastered and passed out.
In the morning a very nice lady was waking them up to see if they were OK since they partied on, and passed out on her property, and it was Loni Anderson.

Instead of calling the cops, getting mad, she made sure no one was dead, then recommended they use the beach shower and recommended a donut/coffee shop/diner not too far away.
Told them as long as they didn't trash the place, she didn't mind...
That is a great story and aligns with my image of what I hope Loni would be like! Her bikini poster adorned the wall of my room until after I got married, the misses threatened to walk if I didn't remove mZ Anderson's poster from the ceiling above our bed ... in retrospect, shouldda stood my ground! :ROFLMAO:
 
I remember the vcr and previous to the vcr the super 8 and reel to reel. Beta seemed to be used in the early days mostly in schools, and there is an interesting history regarding why VHS eventually won out over BETA as the preferred standard for videos. I'm also proud to say that even though I owned several VCR's and operated a great many more, I have never, ever, not even once set the clock on one!
My early vcrs didnt have a clock... ya had to order a separate timer attachment to program it to power on and the record button had to be already pressed in...
 
She owned a LOT of property in south Florida, from Jupiter down to Key West...
I mean it was INSTANT money for her, who wouldn't want to buy a house from Loni Anderson in the 80s/90s?!

I had duty and couldn't get plastered that trip, so I didn't get to meet her, but the squad couldn't stop talking about her...
The military in general & Marines in specific weren't too popular back in the 80s, but she took time to chat with all of them, thanked them for serving, told them it wasn't an issue to party on the beach & use the shower as long as they didn't trash the place...
Most people called a SWAT team if you dared to cross their 'Rich People Only' beaches...
 
I never took the time to set up thr vcr to record TV programs, just used it as a playback device. I do remember having to tune in the individual tv stations using a dizzying matrix of impossibly small plastic tuning knobs on the VCR. The idea of a timer and a mechanical record button sounds more my speed!
 
QUOTE="JeepHammer, post: 13806, member: 2226"]
She owned a LOT of property in south Florida, from Jupiter down to Key West...
I mean it was INSTANT money for her, who wouldn't want to buy a house from Loni Anderson in the 80s/90s?!

I had duty and couldn't get plastered that trip, so I didn't get to meet her, but the squad couldn't stop talking about her...
The military in general & Marines in specific weren't too popular back in the 80s, but she took time to chat with all of them, thanked them for serving, told them it wasn't an issue to party on the beach & use the shower as long as they didn't trash the place...
Most people called a SWAT team if you dared to cross their 'Rich People Only' beaches...
[/QUOTE] Oohrah to that!
 
I remember the vcr and previous to the vcr the super 8 and reel to reel. Beta seemed to be used in the early days mostly in schools, and there is an interesting history regarding why VHS eventually won out over BETA as the preferred standard for videos. I'm also proud to say that even though I owned several VCR's and operated a great many more, I have never, ever, not even once set the clock on one!
My highschool was still using umatics but had some VHS machines.
 
Loni patented her brilliant connector, (a connection that accommodated not only one but two wires was a truly unique as well as a remarkable, technological achievement). Realizing that the holder of such a patent would yield trillions from exclusive licensing of the Anderson connector for use by manfactuer's around the Pacific rim, Loni's cousin Pamela challenged the patent, claiming that Loni used Pamela's name for the invention without her expressed, written consent. To date, the case is still pending in the patent courts but the court has blocked Pamela's request to suspend the rights of manfactuer's to use the Anderson connector as this would cripple an entire industry.


 
Kewl, thank Gnu!

Decline of use
U-matic is no longer used as a mainstream television production format, but it has found lasting appeal as a cheap, well specified, and hard-wearing format. The format permitted many broadcast and non-broadcast institutions to produce television programming on an accessible budget, spawning programming distribution, classroom playback, etc. At its peak popularity, U-matic recording and playback equipment was manufactured by Sony, Panasonic, JVC and Sharp, with many spin-off product manufacturers, such as video edit controllers, time base correctors, video production furniture, playback monitors and carts, etc.
Many television facilities the world over still have a U-matic recorder for archive playback of material recorded in the 1980s. For example, the Library of Congress facility in Culpeper, Virginia holds thousands of titles on U-matic video as a means of providing access copies and proof for copyright deposit of old television broadcasts and films.
More than four decades after it was introduced, the format is still used for the menial tasks of the industry, being more highly specialised and suited to the needs of production staff than the domestic VHS, although as time passes it has been replaced at the bottom of the tree of tape-based production formats by Betacam and Betacam SP as these in turn are replaced by Digital Betacam and HDCAM.
 
Think of it as a very thick vhs tape, with only 30 minutes of tape playback...
If you remember the classroom Highway movies...
I remember, many moons ago while working in the control room of a local TV station on the handset that allowed the newsroom to communicate with the newsvan via two-way radio, seeing a video carousel loaded up with strange looking cassettes labeled with titles like, "Bonanza", and "Commercial", perhaps I was looking at the ancient u-matic video tape technology.
 
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