<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div style="" class=""><span style="" class="">Here's another suggestion for now and for future needs:</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light,Helvetica Neue Light,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><span style="" class=""><br style="" class=""></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light,Helvetica Neue Light,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><span style="" class="">Freecycle is an interesting possibility for a Betamax VCR and for other things like this. If you're not already on the list, you
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All Ages. Use OFFER: WHAT, to give something away. Use TAKEN: when it is gone. </div></div></div></td></tr><tr style="" class=""><td colspan="2" class="" style="height: 4px; background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 0pt; border-collapse: collapse;"><div class="" style="height: 4px; background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 4pt;"></div></td></tr><tr style="" class=""><td class="" style="vertical-align: middle; font-family: 'Arial', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Helvetica', 'sans-serif';"><div class="" style="font-size: 0pt;"><a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/freecycle-Champaign-Urbana/" class="" style="color: black; text-decoration: none !important;cursor:pointer !important;" target="_blank"><span class="" style="display: inline-block; line-height: 11px; max-width: 145px; min-width: 85px; overflow: hidden; max-height: 13px; word-break: break-all;"><span class="" style="vertical-align:middle; font-size: 9px; line-height: 11px; color: #999999; -moz-text-size-adjust:
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class="" colspan="8" style="height: 1px; background-color: #e5e5e5; font-size: 1px; border-collapse: collapse;"><div class="" style="height: 1px; background-color: #e5e5e5; font-size: 1px; line-height:0px"> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light,Helvetica Neue Light,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><span style="" class=""><br style="" class="">----------------------<br style="" class="">Once you're on the list, all you need to do is send out an email to the freecycle email address that they give you when you join, and phrase it something like this:</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light,Helvetica Neue Light,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><span
style="" class=""><br style="" class=""></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light,Helvetica Neue Light,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><span style="" class="">Subject: ISO a Betamax VCR</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light,Helvetica Neue Light,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><span style="" class=""><br style="" class=""></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light,Helvetica Neue Light,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><span style="" class="">In the body of the email, you'd just write that if someone has a Betamax VCR they no longer have a use
for and would like to give it away, then please email you to arrange for a time and place for you to stop by and pick it up. </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light,Helvetica Neue Light,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><span style="" class=""><br style="" class=""></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light,Helvetica Neue Light,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><span style="" class="">--------------------<br style="" class=""><br style="" class="">You might think this wouldn't work, but one member of Freecycle got a free LaserDisc player this way a while ago...<br style="" class=""></span></div><br><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family:
HelveticaNeue-Light,Helvetica Neue Light,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><span style="" class=""><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light,Helvetica Neue Light,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><span style="" class="">P.S. If somebody with the time to do this does so, could they donate it to the IMC after they finish making the video transfers, if there's room for it somewhere? Or, if not to the IMC, could they maybe donate it to a place where there are editing / video transfer stations available to the public? Thanks!<br style="" class=""><br style="" class=""></span></div><div style="" class=""><br style="" class=""></div> <div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica
Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="" class="" dir="ltr"> <hr style="" class="" size="1"> <font style="" class="" face="Arial" size="2"> <b style="" class=""><span class="" style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Emily Knox <emilyknox@gmail.com><br style="" class=""> <b style="" class=""><span class="" style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Jeffrey Putney <quaker@gmail.com> <br style="" class=""><b style="" class=""><span class="" style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> "imc-makerspace@lists.chambana.net" <imc-makerspace@lists.chambana.net> <br style="" class=""> <b style="" class=""><span class="" style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, October 23, 2014 10:35 AM<br style="" class=""> <b style="" class=""><span class="" style="font-weight:
bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Imc-makerspace] Beta to the Max<br style="" class=""> </font> </div> <div style="" class=""><br style="" class=""><div style="" class="" id="yiv0740167005"><div style="" class=""><div style="" class="" dir="ltr">We try. <div style="" class=""><br style="" class="" clear="none"></div><div style="" class="">Actually I tell my students that it's important to have betamax, typewriters, etc in their libraries.</div></div><div style="" class="" id="yiv0740167005yqt72785"><div style="" class=""><br style="" class="" clear="none"><div style="" class="">On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 11:00 PM, Jeffrey Putney <span style="" class="" dir="ltr"><<a style="" class="" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:quaker@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:quaker@gmail.com">quaker@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br style="" class="" clear="none"><blockquote class="" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc
solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div style="" class="" dir="ltr">Oh what can't librarians do! ;-)<br style="" class="" clear="none">
Sounds like that's going to work! Thanks Emily!</div>
<div style="" class="" dir="ltr">Jeff</div>
<div style="" class="" dir="ltr">Sent from an android.</div><div style="" class=""><div style="" class="">
<div style="" class="">On Oct 22, 2014 9:58 PM, "Colten Jackson" <<a style="" class="" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:jazzyjackson@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:jazzyjackson@gmail.com">jazzyjackson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br style="" class="" clear="none"><blockquote class="" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div style="" class="" dir="ltr">Would they be agreeable to hooking up recording equipment? That'd be pretty neat! </div><div style="" class=""><br style="" class="" clear="none"><div style="" class="">On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 9:29 PM, Emily Knox <span style="" class="" dir="ltr"><<a style="" class="" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:emilyknox@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:emilyknox@gmail.com">emilyknox@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br style="" class="" clear="none"><blockquote class="" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc
solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div style="" class="" dir="ltr">There's a betamax viewing station at the Undergrad library <a style="" class="" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.library.illinois.edu/ugl/about/media_viewing_booths.html">http://www.library.illinois.edu/ugl/about/media_viewing_booths.html</a></div><div style="" class=""><br style="" class="" clear="none"><div style="" class=""><div style="" class=""><div style="" class="">On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 9:10 PM, Jeffrey Putney <span style="" class="" dir="ltr"><<a style="" class="" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:quaker@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:quaker@gmail.com">quaker@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br style="" class="" clear="none"></div></div><blockquote class="" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div style="" class=""><div style="" class=""><div style="" class="" dir="ltr"><span class=""
style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap;">Hey Everyone,</span><div style="" class=""><span class="" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap;"><br style="" class="" clear="none"></span></div><div style="" class=""><span class="" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap;">Does anyone have a working betamax player? </span></div><div style="" class=""><span class="" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap;"><br style="" class="" clear="none"></span></div><div style="" class=""><span class="" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap;">We had a visitor tonight who was working on repairing an old Betamax player in order to pull data off of old tapes for a section of their thesis. In the end it seemed like it wasn't going to be revived but I figured I would ask in case anyone can help him out. Just let me
know and I can send you his contact info! </span></div><div style="" class=""><span class="" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap;"><br style="" class="" clear="none"></span></div><div style="" class=""><span class="" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap;">Thanks,</span></div><div style="" class=""><span class="" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap;"> Jeff <br style="" class="" clear="none"></span><br style="" class="" clear="none"><br style="" class="" clear="none"></div></div>
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