P3D V-M Personal - Urgent!

[Rod Sage <rsage@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>V-M Personal users:

>If Fisher-Price/Mattel is not committed to preserving the Personal
>system as a format - as it seems not to be by the impending
>discontinuation of reel production - the company should be urged to
give
>or sell the machinery to an individual or consortium who will commit to

>refurbishing it and continue the production of Personal reels.

>I don't think it's too soon to launch an appeal to Fisher-Price to do
>this, and I am willing to provide the name and address of the corporate

>executive who might be able to make this decision.

>I think all of us who care about the future of the View-Master®
Personal
>system should launch a letter writing campaign to this effect. The
>system has been in use for 40 years, and those still using it deserve
>some consideration. Any agreement? Thoughts?

>Michael Kaplan
>View*Productions
>mailto:view@xxxxxxxx

I like your thinking Mr. Kaplan. If you could provide the name and
address of the executive I would be happy to write a letter expressing
the importance of keeping the reels available. Hopefully someone could
work out a deal with with VM to keep the reels alive. I toured the VM
factory during the '89 NSA convention in Portland and enjoyed watching
and hearing the reel machines pop and wheeze as the reels ran though. As
I recall the machines were mostly pnuematic and were designed by an
organ engineer. I believe it is the enthusiasm of those of us who grew
up with VM to make sure they continue. Think of all the lonely VM
cameras and cutters,  if there are no reels.
RDS



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