[Scott Dorsey]

In article ,
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."