From: (Neil Wagner) - CED Magic

Thank You
Herman
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Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 20:38:53 -0500 (EST)
From: return
To: Tom Howe
Subject: Re: CED Digest Vol. 2 No. 5
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Tom,
Have a small question about the skt-400? I'm wondering about the
reject mode on the 400's. How is the action suppose to properly be
carried out? Sometimes (depending on what I don't know?) it will come to
a slow percise slowdown with the platter and disc gradually, and some
other times it will "more aburtply" come to a more suddenly stop and then
you can here the friction and sliding of the disc upon the platter itself.
It will do this more so, when you press the reject button also. Is there
a point where you should wait to reject or "is there a danger to this
happening where it could be scarring the disc in the machine???
Mark..
chemfish@utkux.utcc.utk.edu
thanx..
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Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 22:11:17 -0800
From: Tom Howe
To: ceds@teleport.com
Subject: The Very Last VideoDisc
A manager who was still working at the pressing plant when it closed on June 27,
1986 told me the last title released was "Jewel of the Nile". Several of these
were framed for distribution among the management staff with the legend "This
Last RCA VideoDisc Produced Is Dedicated To ...... 1986" . This is the only
1986 title I've seen that isn't listed on any of RCA's impending release
bulletins, so the decision to press it must have been a last minute thing. It
doesn't seem to be an extremely rare title, which is odd, because how did people
become aware of its existence to buy it? Perhaps RCA sent out an announcement to
their dealer network stating this was the final title available. The ones I've
seen also have two labels glued directly over each other on the caddy, so RCA
must have been gathering up all their miscellaneous caddies when this was
pressed.
--Tom Howe