But for those few moments in the Antarctic, Dan, I never had a III.
Only a IVs, which you serviced during the late 70s and 80s when it
was still being used. Also, that was after the air-drop episode which
I think was serviced at the old Nagra house in LA before you took
over the effort.
Bernie
>Bernie, you wrote,
>
>>Nagra story 2: Recording on a film shoot over a northern California
>>beach, I was hanging out the door with my feet braced on the runners
>>of a helicopter, the camera-man behind me shooting a long shot down
>>the beach. The chopper lurched and my Nagra IVs sprung off my lap
>>ripping the audio and sync cables from the camera and tumbled about
>>40 ft (about 13 meters) to the beach below. When we landed, the tape
>>was still rolling! The only thing cracked was the plastic cover
>>which needed to be replaced. We repaired the wires, plugged them into
>>the camera and finished the shoot with perfect audio.
>
>Wasn't that your Nagra III? Memory clue: synch cable.
>
>A few years ago a college brought me a Nagra 4.2 that wasn't behaving
>right. When I opened it, the electronics were covered with a thick
>white fuzz of corrosion. Turns out a student had dropped it into a
>creek. Afraid to tell, he'd shaken it out and returned it to the
>school, where it sat on the shelf for at least a week.
>
>Just curious, I turned it on. It ran.
>
>-Dan Dugan
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