[Hammarlund] Boys Toys

[Craig K6QI]

Hello All,

First, I looked at the site listed below, and there are quite a number of 
things that could be of interest to the afflicted, us BA folks.

Now, here is my offer for my good deed for the year... I have a CD burner, 
and a cable modem connection. I can copy a few of these onto a few cd's and 
send them to you for the cost of the cd(s) and postage. I read the 
information on the site, and they are more than willing for these to be 
passed around as long as you don't sell them. Besides, as they say, most if 
not all of these films are in the public domain now anyway...

Now, I don't have a commercial CD burner. If requests get to thick, I'll 
have to '"just say no". Most of these aren't keepers anyway, mail them off 
to others that want to see them, or get a CD burner and copy it.

I think the CD's would go for a buck each, and quite a number could be 
mailed for the one pound Priority Rate of $3.50.

System requirements, for Windows:

                         Pentium 400 MHz or faster
                         Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, or 2000
                         Windows Media Player 6.4 or later

                    Other operating systems require a similarly fast 
computer. However, at present we know of no Macintosh players that will
                    play MPEG-2 files (only MPEG-4). Please contact us if 
you have information about Macintosh-compatible players or
                    decoder boards.



So, if you have a pretty quick machine, but a dial up connection, and you 
don't have six days to download some of these... Here is your chance!

73

Craig K6QI

BTW: I'll only supply the MPEG-2 (DVD) files. If you need one, I can point 
you to the player. MPEG-2 won't play in most internet available software...


At 08:41 AM 1/28/02, Chuck Swiger wrote:
>At 09:29 AM 1/28/02 -0500, you wrote:
>>evolved into. The shot to me appeared to be old film footage. Wouldn't it be
>>nice to have access to these old film clips? I bet someone could put
>
>There are some old movies with boatanchor content available at
>
>http://www.archive.org/movies/index.html
>
>but you'll need cable or DSL to get some like the 1944 "Radio At War"
>which is about 500Mb long!   They used to have that one in more
>compressed Mpeg4/DivX format but it looks like they're redoing those
>in a newer version - it was only a 60-80 Mb download on Christmas
>day, about 5 minutes over a relatives cable modem. "Telegram for America"
>is in compressed format (61.4Mb) has lots of teletype gear, etc. "Behind
>Your Radio Dial - the Story of NBC", all kinds of stuff.
>
>There are films about atomic energy, airports and airplanes (some radio
>room footage there) - they look like school career guidence flicks, what
>they used to show in schools on the 16mm projector. There's even
>official Air Force training films about 16mm projector maintence and use.
>
>         Chuck
>         kb4new
>         cswiger@widomaker.com
>
>
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