Quad Tape Transfer

09/10/2026

Ampex VR-1000 Project Part Two

08/26/2026

Ampex VR-1000 Project Part One: Introduction
With Tom Ostertag and Charlina Johnson

08/14/2026

Anyone care to guess what's in the box? I think you will like this.
No, it's not a leg lamp.

07/24/2026

My friend James Paterson in Melbourne Australia. Congratulations James!

We’ve passed 10,000 followers! Just a few days ago, this page reached 8,000 followers, and I asked whether we could make it to 10,000.

Well, we have — and we’re already beyond it!

The videos showing these old videotape machines working have been incredibly popular, with the latest reaching more than 3.7 MILLION views!

Thank you to everyone who has followed, watched and shared them. Please keep sharing the posts and telling people about what I do.

At the end of the day, I rely on you to help get this work in front of the people who have these ageing videotapes.

I can do the digitising and recovery, but without people sharing the page, many of those tapes may never find their way here before they are lost!

06/11/2026

Bev Gooch Memories | My Years With "The Head Man"
Bev was named Ampex Corporation's most prolific inventor in 1988. I was fortunate to know and study with Bev about 5 years. He taught me how to make tips and rebuild 2" video heads at a time when nobody in the quad world would take me seriously or give me the time of day. Bev did.

06/04/2026

A New Use For Old Quad Video Tape Cases. 😁
Full video here(if you're a car guy): https://youtu.be/Dp491lewwyc?si=hL2PDnJgwyvWKE4F

03/03/2026

For Shai Drori.
External Vacuum Source Routing.

01/01/2026

To Play The Unplayable: An Experiment To Recover Decomposing Quad Tapes

12/26/2025

Happy New Year 2026

10/05/2025

Fixing a quad tape...another day, another tape! 😁