P3D Re: V-M Personal - Urgent!

[Dan Shelley <dshelley@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rod Sage wrote:
> 
> >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

Sorry this will be short as I am too busy these days, but the VM people
addressed this question in our meeting in Green Bay. It seems there
isn't ONE machine that makes personal reels, but rather a large set of
them. A portion of the process of creating them uses other machines that
ARE used in current reel production, so even if they DID give away the
one machine that keeps failing, they could not give away the other
machines that they currently use for regular reel production, so no one
would be able to continue procesing reels since they would not have
everything necessary to do that. I sure hope that makes sense...

Dan Shelley
dshelley@xxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.dddesign.com/3dbydan


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