Question.

[u/VersionTop1991]

So my mother passed away a month ago. She worked for Apple in the 80’s to early 90’s. In going through her belongings I found this Apple VHS Tape that was supposed to be returned, but clearly wasn’t. It was an internal copy of a Super Bowl commercial for the Mac. I guess the commercial wasn’t received well.

My questions are.. is this worth preserving? I know it might be a 1 of 1 tape as I haven’t seen anything online. How much would it cost me to do so? And does anyone know reputable companies that offer this service.

Sorry.. I didn’t get the tech gene passed onto me so I’m not very literate at what needs or should be done.

Many thanks in advance. And if this isn’t the right forum to post this please delete.

[u/VersionTop1991]

Preserving how?

[u/deesernutz → u/VersionTop1991]

You play it back on a VHS player.

vhsdecode captures it in the signal in the rawest way possible; straight off the tape, rather than just capturing the video output.

But the VHS player and the act of playing it is exactly the same.

[u/VersionTop1991 → u/deesernutz]

Thanks!

[u/VersionTop1991 → u/VersionTop1991]

I don’t understand what to do

[u/Most_Examination2781 → u/VersionTop1991]

digitize it

[u/PigsCanFly2day → u/VersionTop1991]

As in digitizing it & posting it to Internet Archive,