geoff wrote:
So what media is the data retained o internal to the Soundstream unit ?
If still in existance surely is would be a fairly minor DP exercise
these days to somehow access, transcode it to a usable digital format ?
It's a 1" Honeywell instrumentation recorder with 16 bits across the tape
width. As I recall there is no parity, so the decoder stores each word
twice, and on playback if they don't compare identically it interpolates
over the error.
http://www.panix.com/~kludge/soundstream1.jpg
http://www.panix.com/~kludge/soundstream2.jpg
Easiest thing might be to take the raw parallel data off the transport into
a DRV-11 sort of interface and deal with everything in software. Would not
be expensive to do.
--scott
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