So clean. I greet up with the Shuttle and it's hard to remember how clean and bright they were.

2:45 Sounds Like A Chicken

so cool

Back in 1981/1982, I resided just outside of Chillicothe OH and had the fondest memories of watching WCMH-TV, every Saturday morning and mostly watched The Flintstone Funnies, Daffy Duck & Speedy, The Smurfs, Sport Billy, etc.!!!

Okay we need an update for 2025

I want to visit there

wondering if you can make pianola rolls with your own music...

1:40 the world’s first MOTION CAPTURE??

Does anyone have the midi player program that they used on the apple2 to arrange music with a computer?

I was trying to found some 2000's style 3D inspiration like a scientific mab full of electric tech and other nostalgic stuff. This is the closest i could find because damn, that is so hard to find the right images or even animations.

Tom Browne Forvermore LP Love Approach

My grandmother worked at QRS forever. We used to go there frequently while living in Western NY. When she sent packages to us when we didn't live nearby they were stuffed with bunched up punched sheets. so very cool now that I think about the history.

Alvino Rey should be much better known, but even older guitar players have rarely heard of him. You could argue that he's the father of stringed instrument amplification, having invented a pickup for his banjo in the 1920s which would later morph into the Gibson ES-150 Charlie Christian pickup, all years before Les Paul began a career of taking credit for pretty much anything having to do with guitar. Paul was more of a groundbreaking force in recording tech, NOT guitar tech, despite his namesake axe. He did some pioneering guitar stuff, but others did too, and Rey was way earlier.

I'M FREAKED OUT!!!😬😬😬😬😬

I grew up in the early 00s but I want to cry when I watch stuff like this.

Back when CGI animation was still new and exciting

GET IT

What a delight to see/hear. Thank for your great dedication.

I love qrs music

1:39 , Is there a name for this genre of music? I’ve always enjoyed music that sounds like this, but I don’t know what it’s classified as, so it’s hard to find.

Hands down the best sign off in Ohio and US television history

extremely nostalgic

Zendaya

Wild how it is basically the original MIDI

How fascinating that all that specialized machinery is still in use 100 years later. It will be a lost art if they ever go out of business. I wonder if they still use that Apple IIe.

A Long Day's Journey Into Night is also an excellent play

The font in the middle titles are look sonic 2 font

1984.

1:37 sounds like a typewriter

This was made in the 80s? Holy cow I distinctly remember seeing this on PBS in the 90s. The music always stuck with me.

Thank you so much for saving this and uploading it in such fantastic quality! This is amazing 🤩

Makes you feel like a ho, don't it? Don't it?

THE START OF WHAT MIDI PIANO ROLL IS

Her words, "I don't think it's an Orbiter problem". She probably had NO idea how correct she would be in future years. The Space Shuttle Orbiter has NEVER failed, as designed. Challenger, SRB and ET failure. Columbia, ET insulation failure, causing damage to the Orbiter. If the builders of the SRB's and ET had their shit together, neither disasters would have happened. Although, NASA, is at ultimately at fault for sending them "good enough", send it.

Columbia deserved to be in a museum like the other shuttles

For some reason, this video has mesmerize me!

KNOWN FOR IT

Solid, Jackson -- solid!

This video is being used to teach the origin of MIDI

A little off subject, but $187 for a 10 inch color portable tv (commercial at 4:40) was a heck of a lot of money in 1981. Today $187 will get you a pretty nice and big flat LCD TV.

Nice job, good balance between history, music, and (musical) tech info.

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This is just lovely!

I wonder if they give tours.

This was very interesting! One of my uncle/aunt families had one of these in a cabin they used to own, and we loved visiting them as kids and pumping it! And I've always wondered about the details of their inner workings but only now have thought to look up both how the pianos work and how these are made. Do you know if this company was still in business even as of 2007 or '6 when you posted this, or even more impressively, here in 2023, despite all the MIDI-actuated players that are out there now?

Wow, yeah, it's interesting to think that THIS is really the first version of digital music... but it's in a vector format rather than the actual audio; just like MIDI is! And interesting that they had already advanced to replacing one of the steps with a personal computer -- even a simple Apple instead of something more like an IBM -- as early as the late 1970s (of course before IBM PCs) or early 80s, but with all the punch paper involved it would seem equally appropriate for a 40s or 50s computer to do!

Haha, oh, so _that's_ how Q*R*S got its name, funny! I remember sometimes wondering, "Hmm, what does the 'QRS' on these stand for?"

"Scotch tape..." * ...or any suitably similar brand of _transparent tape._

This is some baby making sign off music.