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Col. Potter finally meets Trapper John for the first time, as the original MASH cast reunites for several TV commercials for IBM Personal System/2 products recasting them in a business office with new IBM computers. Gary Burghoff, Jamie Farr, Larry Linville, Harry Morgan, Bill Christopher, Loretta Swit, and Wayne Rogers tout "the next generation of power, speed, and graphics," with a whopping 256 colors! Originally broadcast in early April 1987 and rebroadcast in 1988. The BetaGems channel also has the later 1988 IBM ad featuring Alan Alda crossing the flooded office in an inflatable life raft, "1988 IBM ad M*A*S*H cast, Alan Alda television commercial."
The BetaGems channel also has "1999 IBM Just Socks television commercial," "1989 IBM Technology At Work television commercial," "1985 Family Computing Magazine TV commercial," "1988 DeVry Computer Education TV commercial," "1989 Kelsey Jenney Business College computer classes TV ad," "1988 Epson Computer television commercial," "1987 Nintendo TV ad - Super Mario Bros, Hogan's Alley, Duck Hunt, more," "Activision 1984 commercial Pitfall II Lost Caverns Atari 2600," "April 1990 Family Fun Center TV ad, San Diego," "Milford Amusement Center May 1992 musical TV commercial We've got the fun," and "Game Boy 1991 vintage TV ad."
BetaGems are culled from an archive of over 1000 beta video tapes recorded from 1983 into the 1990s. Most feature live music performances broadcast on television in San Diego CA, though there are also rarely seen commercials, comedy clips, and other material that doesn't seem to be anywhere else on KZbin or online. Most of the tapes were recorded on a Sony SL-HFT7 Super Beta Theater Hi-Fi Stereo - the same model was refurbished and is being used for these digital transfers and uploads.
In rare occasions where a BetaGems clip does appear elsewhere, we're only uploading if our own beta master is better quality or contains material not seen previously. Much footage comes from public television and public access broadcasts that the taper, who worked for a local cable TV production company in the 1980s, monitored nightly for several years. Some of the programming is strictly regional, mostly from the San Diego area.