[Klay Anderson[_2_]]

For the older members of this group, Soundstream was founded here in Salt Lake City in the mid-70s. It was the first commercially viable digital recording/editing system. That sounded pretty good. I was lucky to work briefly with the inventor, Dr. Thomas Stockham. We now find ourselves in need of playing back some discovered Soundsream recordings. (rolling of eyes) The system used a box of electronics and a modified Honeywell transport. So......anyone have any leads, suggestions, or can channel Dr. Stockham on paths to get these tapes transferred? I am not optimistic about the success of this endeavor--but hey--"don't ask; don't get".

Yours truly,

Mr. Klay Anderson, D.A.,Q.B.E.

[[email protected]]

So.....anyone have any leads, suggestions, or can channel Dr. Stockham on paths to get these tapes transferred? I am not optimistic about the success of this endeavor--but hey--"don't ask; don't get".

Yours truly,

Mr. Klay Anderson, D.A.,Q.B.E.

as you probably know, there is some good info on Wikipedia.

You might also ask over he

comp.dsp

There are digital audio guys over there.

Mark

[Scott Dorsey]

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Klay Anderson wrote:
For the older members of this group, Soundstream was founded here in Salt L=
ake City in the mid-70s. It was the first commercially viable digital reco=
rding/editing system. That sounded pretty good. I was lucky to work brief=
ly with the inventor, Dr. Thomas Stockham. We now find ourselves in need o=
f playing back some discovered Soundsream recordings. (rolling of eyes) T=
he system used a box of electronics and a modified Honeywell transport. So=
.....anyone have any leads, suggestions, or can channel Dr. Stockham on pat=
hs to get these tapes transferred? I am not optimistic about the success o=
f this endeavor--but hey--"don't ask; don't get".

In 2003, the AES Historical Committee had a presentation called "Vinyl Goes
Digital" in which they had a working X-86, a working PCM-F1, the Colossus,
and I am pretty sure they had a running Soundstream machine there also being
used for one of the demos.

I don't know whose machine it was or who arranged the demo, but I would
contact Bill Wray or Gene Radzik of the Historical Committee and ask them.
I might also ask Steve Puntolillo just because he knows everybody with weird
old machines.

Transcribing it yourself should not be too hard; I believe it was just a
modified IRIG digital instrumentation recorder on the digital side. Now,
translating the digital stream coming off the tape into a straight PCM file
might not be so easy.
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."