PeerTube of Jigme Datse

Or, The Search for The Missing Envelopes - An Avant-Garde Art Film

I decided to make a boring task more fun by exercising one of my vintage camcorders for the first time in a few months while I did so.

I should mention that this camcorder is actually called a Zenith VM6200. It is a re-brand of the JVC counterpart, and these days I just automatically recall the JVC designation.

In which we take a look inside the computer, then boot it up.

This video was uploaded on August 1st, 2017 my time, marking the 9th anniversary of when I uploaded my first YouTube video. Part 1 was uploaded on July 31st, marking the 9th anniversary of when I created this YouTube channel.

The computer is not powered on in this video. We will do that in Part 2.

It's finally here, the long-awaited video of what is without a doubt the most unique of all my computers.

A few different things stalled the filming of this video. What gave me the motivation to finally get it done recently is that today, July 31, 2017, is the 9th anniversary of the creation of this YouTube channel. I thought this would be a worthy celebration. Tomorrow, August 1, will be the 9th anniversary of my first video, and I hope to have Part 2 uploaded then.

CORRECTIONS:

My neat 5" CRT color TV suddenly bit the dust, for no reason. Here's what I found.

The parents of a friend of mine have forty 8mm camcorder tapes that they can no longer watch. They asked me if I knew of any company/etc. that could digitize them, and were overjoyed when I said that I could do it myself.

I am buying my friend's furniture that remained in the apartment when I moved in, so in return for doing this, I am getting a discount on the previously agreed-upon price.

A simple comparison of recording and playback quality between two of my VHS VCRs. A test pattern and 440 Hz tone was recorded onto a tape using each VCR, then each recording was played back in both VCRs, for a total of four samples to compare. I narrate the analysis.

I made a video of this a long time ago, and then put it away until I could replace the belts "sometime". 3.5 years later, I've finally done that. So here we take another retrospective look at this VCR, and do a recording test on it. I also point out where the belts that need to be replaced are, and go off on some juicy tangents.

Original video of this VCR I filmed in 2014:

Excellent video about how videotape recording works, with an emphasis on VHS:

A physical overview of all the components of a Norstar system, and how they're connected. Other topics include the different Norstar PBX and phone models available, which ones I recommend getting, and the expense and difficulty in getting a PBX and all the other components.

Props to my friend Jack Stavris, who let me use a few seconds of one of his videos in this video. Granted he hasn't actually seen what footage I used and I've done with it yet, but I'm sure he'll be a good sport.

Something I've wanted for a long time that I finally got myself for Christmas. Bonus tangents and childhood reminiscing.

Here we get into Northern Telecom's history, with a focus on their office telephone products, and how they individually impacted the market at their time. Context of Norstar's introduction and how it took the world by storm is provided. Finally, a description of the capabilities of each Norstar model is given.

The next part will be a physical overview of my Norstar 6x16 PBX and the two phones I bought to use with it.

The Meridian SL-1 video I injected in the middle of this video: