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[removed] Digest				Volume 96 : Issue 357

Table Of Contents: 

	 cassette tapes / software for OTR
	 Modern TV as Radio
	 TDK's new format
	 Wrestling shows
	 Re: Pat Novak
	 West Coast Radio Museum

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Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 21:34:47 -0400
From: Platecap@[removed]
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: cassette tapes / software for OTR
Message-ID: <960927213446_531719532@[removed]>

Information on cassette brands has been referenced frequently.  F. Charles
Simar asked about [removed] earlier post referenced TDK "D" s.

I don't use any of the above.  For years, for masters I've used custom loads
from suppliers like Polyline (1233 Rand Road Des Plaines, IL [removed]
874-390-6464).
I'd recommend clear shells with BASF PE649 tape for mastering OTR on regular
cassette.  You can order them with an extra minute or two of tape if you
want.   Cost depends on how many you [removed]

With bulk cassettes, you order the labels separate.  They are available on
rolls or sheets for typing, pin-feed for dot-matrix printers, or sheets for
laser printers or inkjets.

For open reel, I'll take 3-M products anyday (hurry before they are
discontinued!).

Software for printing labels and cataloging?  FileMaker Pro for Windows or
Macintosh from Claris available from any software supplier.  The file formats
between the platforms are interchangable.  Newest version is fully
relational, so if you have a separate file for logs and another for cassettes
(and/or reels), you can configure so when you get new information for the log
(added or corrected dates, etc.) it automatically updates your basic catalog
files.  Data entry is also much faster and automated.  The more primitive
label software is much more time consuming to deal with.  You get what you
pay for.

Bob Burnham;  BRC Productions;  Platecap@[removed]

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Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 23:00:48 -0700
From: joseph@[removed] (joseph)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Modern TV as Radio
Message-Id: <v01530500ae720bd79759@[[removed]]>
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Here is something that I found fun to do. An opening to the popular XYZ
Files "as heard on radio."


The 1940's

Blitz Beer Presents:
XYZ-Files

Rich playboy and man about town Foxy Mulder leads a double life as the
serious crime fighter The Spook. With help of his friend and companion Dana
who works as a clerk for FBI and the special section XYZ Files. They help
the friendless denizens of the weird.

Opening:

Wind whistling through the trees. Distant howling of a wolf.

Announcer: Blitz Beer presents the XYZ-Files.

The rich playboy and bon vivant Foxy Mulder, known to his friend and
companion Dana, as the Spook, stalk evil and help the friendless denizens
of the weird.

SFX: Howling wolf in background.

The Spook (filtered): Beware the evil that I find, because it hides from
men's mind. The truth is out there. (laughter)

Tonight Blitz Beer and the Mutual Broadcasting System presents:

THE TERROR THAT LIVES AT NIGHT a story from the XYZ-Files.

Hope you will pardon my (ah-hem) humor.

Joseph

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Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 03:02:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: MAX SCHMID <mschmid@[removed]>
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed]>
Subject: TDK's new format
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>
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I called TDK Electronics today and they confirmed that there is a new 
standard for their D-90 (and I assume that whole line of D-) cassettes. 
The slim cases and non-screw cassette shells wil be standard issue from 
now on.  Sorry, at home (natch) is the Buck Rogers term for the non-screw, 
non-glue system of sealing the cassettes - hypervibration?  Supersonic 
welding?  Subatomic bombardment?  What it means is - no more 5-screw 
cassettes from TDK.
	Previously, BASF was using this system.  Maxell still has screws, 
so far (and those swell 15-cassette cases they come in).  Is this an 
issue with anyone?  I've had one person insist on TDK in a trade, but my 
assumption is there's not a whole lot of difference, as long as you stick 
to a name brand.  I also like the fact that the cassette cases are higher 
quality than the so-called "Norelco-type" offered by wholesalers, the 
fact that they come with labels and "J-cards", and overall seem to be just
as cheap as buying unboxed tape by the hundreds, after adding in all the 
extras noted.  I've shopped around a bit, and the best price I've found 
for TDK D-90s is $.79 at a local hifi store (no matter whether you buy 
one or a thousand).  I tried to locate a distributor through TDK and the guy
they sent me to wanted $.99 @ on a hundred.  So much for wholesale!  
Anyone know of better bulk prices for this tape?
	Any thoughts on this whole issue?  In the past I've noticed that if
a cassette is dragging or wowing, just loosening the screws a bit can help,
so I'm a bit reluctant to use these new ones. 

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Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 03:07:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: MAX SCHMID <mschmid@[removed]>
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed]>
Subject: Wrestling shows
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII

	Since we've done so well with trains and baseball, one of my pet
subjects: Wrestling.  Are there any OTR shows featuring this "sport"?
Naturally I'd prefer so-called "professional" wrestling angles - you 
know, the fake kind, over the olympic sport, but any will do.  I know 
there are many shows about boxing, etc. but I don't care about those.
The only show that comes to mind is a Bill Stern Sports Newsreel show
about a kid from [removed] turns out to be the wrestler Joseph Stalin
of Georgia, Russia!    -Max

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Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 03:50:16 -0400
From: Nevartb@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
cc: Nevartb@[removed]
Subject: Re: Pat Novak
Message-ID: <960928035016_531944909@[removed]>

Novaks similes that stick with me:

Hellman:  What am I supposed to do, Novak, sit around on my hands?
Novak:  Who knows, might be the most fun you'll have all day.

Hellman:  Don't worry, Novak. We'll find him.
Novak:  You couldn't find a bear in a telephone booth. 

Novak: When she walked through the door,  I knew we'd already known each
other too long. 

-Bill
Santa Rosa

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Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 10:38:03 -0500 (EST)
From: SAH@[removed]
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: West Coast Radio Museum
Message-id: <01IA0CDPG3MQ94FVJT@[removed]>
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   I'm still waiting to see a report from someone who has actually
   visited the new Museum of Radio & TV in Los Angeles.  Aside from
   comments that it has the same material as in New York,  I haven't
   heard anything.  So, . . .




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