RickR

Yes.  I decided to buy a converter myself, as we have probably 30 reels to convert.  Sending them out to a service would have cost a fortune.  I got a really good deal on a used machine on ebay, and I'm so grateful that it works really well. 

The projector we have no longer works.  All the rubber belts and such have turned to dust.  Converting seems like a good idea to preserve all these memories. 

So far, I've done one reel of my parents' wedding and another of my wife's family -- Christmas 1967!  Really neat to see those. 

When I'm done, I'm going to look into donating this machine to my local library so others can do the same conversion for free. 

Rick, I've been thinking of doing the same thing, except with 8mm home video cassettes. I have so many home movies from the late 80s and early 90s that I would like to preserve, some of which is Atari related and would be fun to share here.

So awesome Rick! Great idea that I am sure will give you great satisfaction on completing. And Justin, man I envy that you recorded all that awesome nostalgic stuff back in the day. I did have several hours of VHS I recorded back in the day as an older teen and young adult mostly, I was into video stuff and did the best with what I had at the time but without any foresight most of it is either stupid, embarrassing or downright drunk nonsense 😜it’s pretty sad quality but who knows, I might share specific bits, like the Beastie Boys Fight for your right to party video we lip synced and made a video for, you won’t believe how skinny I was or the literal Afro head of hair I had, I have tried to laugh at myself more these days after all 🤷😆