CED Digest Vol. 8 No. 9

CED Digest Vol. 8 No. 9 • 3/1/2003
20 Years Ago In CED History:

March 2, 1983:
* Dr. Barney Clark, the artificial heart recipient on December 2, 1982,
comments publicly for the first time. In a videotaped interview with his
surgeon, Dr. William C. DeVries, Dr. Clark says his ordeal has been worthwhile
and would be for others in his situation because, he says, "either they
die or they have it done."
* Pope John Paul II arrives in Costa Rica, beginning an eight-day, eight-nation
tour of Central America and the Caribbean.

March 3, 1983:
* An estimated 80,000 Greeks attend a protest rally in Athens to demand the
closing down of all U.S. military bases in the country. The demonstration was
jointly organized by an independent leftist organization, by the Greek
Communist Party, and most notably by the Panhellenic Socialist Movement
(Pasok), the party of Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou.

March 4, 1983:
* Artificial heart recipient Barney B. Clark is reported by his doctors to have
developed pneumonia and to be suffering from nausea and vomiting.
* Future CED title in widespread theatrical release: Tender Mercies.

March 5, 1983:
* Australia's Labor Party, led by Robert Hawke, wins a solid majority in the
lower house of Parliament, ending eight years of Liberal-National Party rule.
* "Billie Jean" (CED) by Michael Jackson becomes the No. 1 U.S.
single.

March 6, 1983:
* The ruling center-right coalition of West Germany's Helmut Kohl wins a strong
majority in national elections for the Bundestag. The Greens, a leftist
antinuclear and environmental movement, earns its first 27 seats in the
498-seat body.
* The new United States Football League begins its first season.

March 7, 1983:
* Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi welcomes leaders of third world nations
to a conference in New Delhi. In her opening address Gandhi pleads for more
financial aid for less developed countries and urged conciliation on political
issues.
* A transit strike shuts down all service for 90,000 commuters from New York
City's northern suburbs.

March 8, 1983:
* Opposition leader Joshua Nkomo flees Zimbabwe after attacks on his supporters
by government troops.
* In a speech to the National Association of Evangelicals, President Reagan
refers to the Soviet Union as "an evil empire" and "the focus of evil in the
modern world."

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Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 20:57:36 -0800 (PST)
From: Joe Phillips <littlejoeflub>
Subject: RE: Space Shuttle: Mission Reports
To: digest@cedmagic.com

Clipped from last weeks Digest:
If you're looking for this title, there's a Space
Shuttle disc with
booklet and box on eBay now, but I don't think this is
a very good
time to try and buy it. A few days ago just the disc
went for $102.50
in another auction, several times the price of
pre-accident auctions.

--Tom

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I was one of the bidders on the auction where the disc
alone went for $102.50.  At auction close I was the
high bidder runner-up.  I had been high bidder from
the $68 and up mark (at time of bid the price was at
$50).

I'm not privy to the details of why, but the high
bidder must've decided he didn't want to pay that much
for the disc and a few days after auction close I
received a second chance offer by the seller at my max
bid price of $100.  Now that I look back on it a week
later I was out of my mind not to take the seller up
on the offer before it expired.  I think it was
weighing the pros: chance to own very rare collectors
disc, and the cons: inability to pay next months rent,
that made me decide not to take it for $100.  I wonder
if the next person in line got it for their max bid.

Has there been any other rare videodiscs that went for
outragious prices like that auction did?  If memory
serves for awhile on ebay Return of the Jedi discs
were going for a good price.

-Joe

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Subject: colortrak 2000 remote control
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 00:08:22 -0500
From: "Gary Hudson" <hudsong>
To: <digest@cedmagic.com>

I NEED TO PURCHASE AN ORIGINAL REMOTE CONTROL FOR MY '89 20" COLORTRAK
2000 TV.  I CANNOT GET THE UNIVERSAL REMOTES TO DISPLAY THE MENU SCREEN ON MY
TV. NOW I CAN'T USE THE S-VIDEO OR OTHER INPUTS.

PLEASE HELP

THANK YOU

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From: "grant and dan" <grant.220t>
To: <digest@cedmagic.com>
Subject: ced player
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 22:13:40 -0000

hi
would it be possible to fit a rca cartridge in a Hitachi player i men fidle
with it untill it will fit in a hitachi cartridge
many thanx

daniel collins

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Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 18:51:03 -0500
Subject: VideoDiscs currently posted on ebay
From: "(Amanda & Ethan)" <ethamd>
To: <digest@cedmagic.com>

I have just finished posting almost thirty group lots of VideoDiscs on ebay.
Available in these groups are these 136 fine films:

39 Steps
48 HRS
Against All Odds
Airplane II The Sequel
Animal House
Apocalyse Now
Atlantic City
Beverly Hills Cop
Big Red One
Black Hole
Blues Brothers
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
Breakout
Brigadoon
Caddyshack
Cat Ballou
Champ, The
Class
Clockwork Orange
Coal Miner's Daughter
Cotton Club
Diamonds Are Forever
Doctor Zhivago
Dragonslayer
Dressed to Kill
Dresser
Educating Rita
Emmanuelle IV
Evil that Men Do
Fame
Fiddler on the Roof
Fletch
Forbidden Planet
Gandhi
Godfather
Gone With the Wind
Gorky Park
Greystoke, The Legend of Tarzan
Heaven Can Wait
High Sierra
Hotel New Hampshire
Iceman
In Praise Of Older Women
Jewel of the Nile
La Cage Aux Folles
Last Starfighter
Longest Yard
Magnificent Seven
Maltese Falcon
Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Midnight Cowboy
Mildred Pierce
Missouri Breaks
Moscow On The Hudson
Mouse That Roared
Murphy's Romance
My Fair Lady
Natural, The
On Golden Pond
On The Waterfront
Once Upon a Time in America
Ordinary People
Pale Rider
Pinocchio
Prince of the City
Prince, Purple Rain
Private Benjamin
Public Enemy
Racing With The Moon
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Return of the Jedi
Right Stuff, The
Rio Lobo
Risky Business
Rocky III
Romancing the Stone
Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea
Scarface
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Spies Like Us
Splash
Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back
Sting, The
Stripes
Sunshine Boys
Swing Shift
Swiss Family Robinson
Teen Wolf
Terminator
Terms of Endearment
Tightrope
Tommy
Tootsie
Trading Places
Treasure of Sierra Madre
Uncommon Valor
Under Fire
Up In Smoke
Victor Victoria
View to Kill
Witness
World According to Garp
World's Greatest Lover
Aerobicise, The Beautiful Workout
Jane Fonda's New Workout
Jane Fonda's Prime Time Workout
Jane Fonda's Workout
Jane Fonda's Workout Challenge
Richard Prior Here and Now
Richard Pryor Live on Sunset Strip
A Night With Lou Reed
Crosby,Stills & Nash  Daylight Again
Dexys Midnight Runners
Divine Madness
Duran Duran
Evening With The Royal Ballet
Kenny Loggins, Alive
Little River Band, Live Exposure
Olivia, In Concert
Olivia, Physical
Police, Around the World
Quadrophenia
Queen, Greatest Hits
Roxy Music, the high road
Rush, Exit Stage Left
Jethro Tull, Slipstream
Steve Miller Band Live!
Eurythmics, Sweet Dreams
The Beatles "Let it Be"
The Compleat Beatles
The Harder They Come
The Kids Are Alright
The Tubes Video
Totally Go-Go's
Olivia Newton-John, Twist of Fate
Rolling Stones, Video Rewind

My ebay seller i.d. is my email address: ethamd@mindspring.com  You can
search for that i.d.  Or copy and paste this link into your browser:

http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewSellersOtherItems&userid=ethamd%
40
mindspring.com

My auctions end next Wednesday March 5th in the afternoon/early evening.
Incidentally, the VideoDiscs I am selling come from the collection of a
former RCA executive who worked on the VideoDisc project.  He asked me to
find good homes for them when he decided it was time to retire to Vermont.

Have fun, and bid like you mean it.

Ethan
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