[HECnet] Younger generations

[Matt Patoray]

We do need to pass the knowledge we have all accumulated on, or things will die, and it’s not just software it’s hardware as well, how to use, maintain and troubleshoot it.

I work in audio/video preservation as a video engineer, we get resumes all the time where students from the local college tell us about their editing skills for making TicTok videos or YouTube videos. 
But very few have ever seen a Sony Digital Betacam deck let alone opened one up to clean the tape path, and a 1” BVH-2000 machine blows their mind, and when I tell someone the Ampex AVR-2 quad machine needs compressed air to run they short circuit like a fembot in Austin Powers.

Matt

Sent from my iPhone

> On Apr 21, 2021, at 4:46 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>  Now, now.  Let's be respectful.  But yes. ;)
> 
>  "Boy, I've got PANTS older than you!" ;)
> 
>             -Dave, just turned 52..
> 
>> On 4/21/21 4:44 PM, Brian Hechinger wrote:
>> Young? He's damn near a baby from our perspective! :-P
>> 
>> 
>> -brian
>> 
>> 
>>> On 4/21/21 2:21 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
>>>    A young(ish) man of impeccable taste. :-)
>>> 
>>>          -Dave
>>> 
>>> On 4/21/21 2:19 PM, Jeroen Brons wrote:
>>>> im 26 and a DEC guy, so there's hope :)
>>>> 
>>>> Op wo 21 apr. 2021 20:12 schreef Keith Halewood
>>>> <Keith.Halewood at pitbulluk.org <mailto:Keith.Halewood at pitbulluk.org>>:
>>>> 
>>>>      With what was going on about RT11, I showed a much younger
>>>> colleague
>>>>      some of the conversations on this list.
>>>> 
>>>>      Let’s just say that I fear for the future of the human race.
>>>> 
>>>>      Keith
>>>> 
>>> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
> New Kensington, PA