Re: [ARSCLIST] Vintage Ampex technology book on eBay...

[Steven Smolian <smolians@xxxxxxxxx>]

This is to make it difficult to look up other, possibly less expensive 
copies on Bookfinder, Amazon, etc.

Steve Smolian

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Fine" <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2008 6:37 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Vintage Ampex technology book on eBay...


> This seller does this all the time, and his prices are for phools.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "George Brock-Nannestad" <pattac@xxxxxxxx>
> To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2008 12:29 PM
> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Vintage Ampex technology book on eBay...
>
>
> > From: Patent Tactics, George Brock-Nannestad
> >
> > Dave Nolan wrote:
> >
> > > Can't afford this today - someone here must want to snag it...
> > >
> > > http://cgi.ebay.com/ANALOG-TAPE-IS-KING-Fab-1949-Recording-Book-Ampex-200_W0
> > > QQitemZ190219300712QQihZ009QQcategoryZ15199QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZView
> > > Item
> > >
> > > Let me know who gets it :-)
> >
> > ----- imagine that anybody would sell a book without giving its author 
> > and title. It seems (Brush gave it away) to be Begun, S. J.: "Magnetic 
> > Recording" which came out, as the seller said, in 1949, but obviously it 
> > is not exclusively on Ampex. It was reprinted in 1954, and that edition 
> > is usually much cheaper. It is a good book. I would recommend the 
> > following two books:
> >
> > Phil van Praag: "Evolution of the Audio Recorder", published by EC 
> > Designs, Inc., Waukesha, WI, (1997),  ISBN 0-9657344-0-4 (xviii + 519 
> > pages)
> >
> > Andrew Emmerson: "Electronic Classics. Collecting, Restoration and 
> > Repair", Newnes, Oxford 1998, ISBN 07506 3788 9 (viii + 413 pages)
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> >
> > George