<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Feb 25, 2011, at 10:01 PM, Scott Thomas wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">I'll see if I can find the link, but I found a webpage years ago that was filled with comments from (former) Vital SqueezeZoom users. Some neat stories there on just how quirky they were. I'll see if I can relocate it.</span></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>Some folks may find this webpage relatable.</div><div><a href="http://www.electronicskb.com/Uwe/Forum.aspx/design/45645/Bad-Circuits-in-the-Wild">http://www.electronicskb.com/Uwe/Forum.aspx/design/45645/Bad-Circuits-in-the-Wild</a></div><div><br></div><div>It's a thread about the size and readability of schematics.</div><div><br></div><div>The Vital SqueezeZoom is mentioned as a "nightmare" that in the poster's experience seemed to require replacement of 100 caps a month in the video mixer circutry, and that the schematics were riddled with errors.</div><div><br></div><div>Todd Rundgren bought one: <a href="http://home.comcast.net/~toddstuff/articles/TR-198104-Mix/TR-198104-Mix.html">http://home.comcast.net/~toddstuff/articles/TR-198104-Mix/TR-198104-Mix.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>And since NAB is coming soon, Stefan Sargent mentions here </div><div><a href="http://www.dv.com/article/93200">http://www.dv.com/article/93200</a></div><div><br></div><div>how he became a SqueezeZoom owner in 1979... three years after being seduce by an Ampex machine...</div><div><br></div><div>Ted.</div><div apple-content-edited="true"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; font-size: 14px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span>Ted Langdell</span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Secretary</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Skype: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>TedLangdell</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">e-mail:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><a href="mailto:ted@quadvideotapegroup.com">ted@quadvideotapegroup.com</a></span></font></div></span></div></span></div></div> </div><br></body></html>