Re: Moore's Electronics

[Jim Davis <alarminex@xxxxxxx>]

On Monday, October 16, 2017 at 12:54:02 PM UTC-4, Bob La Londe wrote:
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> I was installing cameras during the vidicon tube and VCR days. Some of th=
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> cameras took two people on ladders to mount them they were so heavy and=
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> I dropped out of the CCTV business for about 10 years and started=20
> re-educating myself about 10/15 years ago when I saw the popularity growi=
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> and the advent of better IP cameras and people were installing them at=20
> reasonable prices.
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> I dropped out because there were people installing cameras for the cost o=
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> equipment and $100.00 a day labor. I refused to compete with that. It's a=
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> lot better now. Around here .... anyway.
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> P.S.  I'm not as old as you.  I did install a few vidicon cameras... as a=
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> kid working in my parents grocery store, and they were light enough I cou=
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> lug them around under one arm.  LOL.

I'm just remembering somthing that happened back then with an old vidicon a=
nd VCR recorder installation. When VCR's first came out they didn't record =
all cameras simultaniously but in sequence. And, of course if the area bein=
g viewed was dark it took a little longer to create each frane

Anyway, I had a big Restaurant three bars where the owner wanted to catch t=
he bartenders skimming the money from the registers. So I quoted two camera=
s at each end of each bar looking at the cash registers in the center. Well=
, neeless to say, it didn't work. The bartenders could skim the cash faster=
 than the VCR could record them doing it. By the time each camera created a=
 frame and between the time one camera created a picture and the next camer=
a created a picture the money was already gone. We could see the money head=
 toward the register but it just wasn't fast enough to see them palm the bi=
lls. I had to pull the system out and fortunately was able to use the camer=
as and VCR at another job.
It was a good lesson learned.