7 Mar
2016
7 Mar
'16
3:32 p.m.
Simmilar to the StorageTek tape juke is the Sony BetaCart and its variations, but insted of DLT tapes it contained some form of videotape cassette either BetaCam 1/2" variants or D-2 3/4" tapes. The system was introduced in 1985 and allowwd a TV station to air many different videotapes automatically, the minimum system consisted of 1(expandable to 4) BetaCam VCR modified to take tapes in from the side, a cart robot that could hold 30 tapes, an AV matrix switcher and a custom control computer with bar code printing and reading cability.
The movie Hackers! Although those looked 3/4" Umatic? STK Silos from when I worked @ NASA: https://users.757.org/~ethan/pics/office/13/ We had 3 powderhorns and a number of smaller ones.