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"LabGuy" Richard Diehl.
RF Cafe website visitor Richard Diehl recently contacted me in search of
the "TV
Monocle Gives Extra Eye to Wearer" article in the September 1962 issue
of
Radio-Electronics magazine. Come to find out, Mr. Diehl is none
other than the progenitor and still current publisher of the
LabGuy's World website,
which contains a vast amount of information on vintage video tape equipment
(hence, his interest in the TV Monocle article). He is a fellow traveler along
the road of website creation, having had a World Wide Web presence since October
1997 - predating RF Cafe by a year and a half (July 1999)! Dig this: "These
pages were originally created with
Netscape Composer
and are now maintained solely with Microsoft
Notepad." The
WhoIs record shows labguysworld.com domain registration was in 2001, so
it went by another name for a couple year prior.
LabGuy's World - home of the WWW's most extensive collection
of video tape recording and playback equipment.
LabGuy's World:
The History of Video Tape Recorders before Betamax and VHS. Find out where
that VCR in your living room came from. Read about video hardware that has
been extinct a very long time. At LabGuy's World, you can tour the virtual
museum, flip through the catalog of extinct video recorders and cameras,
browse the time line of video recording history, figure out how to hook up
that gnarly antique you just bought at a yard sale AND much, much more!
Per his bio page, "Mildly obsessive and manic, he runs the site in 'cackling
mad man' mode. His collections of almost antique video tape recorders and
cameras is legendary. If it is electronic and makes pictures of any kind,
he knows something useful about it."
An extensive list of hyperlinks to related websites is provided on the
Extinct Video Tape Recorder
Related Links page. LabGuy also offers some
hard-to-find
manuals for sale at a low price, to help compensate for the often great
deal of time needed to manually scan the many hard copies he has collected.
"If it was small format video, used in the USA, between 1960 and 1980, it
is possibly in my archives." Ampex, AT&T, Bell, Western Electric, Blonder-Tongue
(not a typo), Craig, CVS, JVC, Motorola, Panasonic, RCA, Sharp, Sony, and
Zenith are among the manufacturers represented. Lots of good videos are
available on the
LabGuy's World YouTube channel.
LabGuy is still a practicing engineer, working for a major defense contracting
company that specializes in high power microwave transmitter products.
Posted August 20, 2024
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