Elmo GS-1200HD?

[Steve Klare]

Does anybody even know what all these neat little letter pairs mean? (-if anything?)

What's a "GS"? What makes an ST-1200 with twin track sound "HD"? (Of course "M", "O" and "MO" are easy enough.)

Honest: many, many years ago I saw my first ELMO ST-800 on the "used" shelf in a camera store. At that moment I thought it was "STereo"! (Then I got it home and for a short time it had no sound at all!)

[Martin Davey]

I must admit, I was completely taken in by Grahams 'HD'. I know there some rare/ late versions of the machine (which I don't have in any form), so it seemed natural!

[Paul Adsett]

Me too Martin- I spent a couple of hours searching for GS1200 specs on the internet!

[Douglas Meltzer]

Paul,

We may have another "Eupig" on our hands!

[Brian Fretwell]

I think there may be more chance of seeing an Elmo GS1200HID than an HD.

[Osi Osgood]

So, does this REALLY exist ... or not?

[Steve Klare]

No Osi!

You are actually its creator! Sometimes great things come from typographical errors: I read once that there is a decently large set of words in the English language that only exist because of mistakes made in dictionaries!

Here's an Elmo Unicorn that really does exist: GS-1200 O. It is a GS that is optical only, therefore monaural and very simplified. Our friend Jason Smith actually captured one in Japan: Xenon, no less!

Unlike Nessy or Bigfoot, there is really good photographic evidence for this one!

Here's the rear panel:

(No photoshop this time!)

-have you ever seen anything less-"GS" than this panel?

Here's more of the story:

https://8mmforum.film-tech.com/cgi-b...=002977#000000
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-Note the single VU meter with blanking panel.

(This machine isn't alright: it's all-Left!)

[Paul Adsett]

We may have another "Eupig" on our hands!

The "Eupig" to which Doug refers is actually the Elmig. This was a joint development program between Elmo and Eumig started in 1979. A prototype designated as the GS-938 was built and exhibited at Photopia in 1981, but Elmo abandoned the program when Eumig collapsed in 1982. The idea was to produce a world class super 8 stereo sound projector that combined the best features of the GS1200 with Eumig's patented sound recording and mixing electronics. Photo courtesy of the Eumig Museum:

[Graham Ritchie]

Very good Paul I was wondering about the word "Eupig"

[Douglas Meltzer]

Ah, what short memories. It was a mere 17 years ago that we had a thread about the Eupig.....

Courtesy of Simon McConway, it told the inspiring story of Zecariah Thompson, who tried to create Super 7mm and also modify a Eumig projector to accept that format.

[Brian Fretwell]

I like the 4 VU meters in that "photo". 2 for record 2 for playback or was it to be the first matrixed quadraphonic machine?

[Osi Osgood]

I am almost starting to feel just a tad guilty for starting this! I can imagine someone, absolutely brand new to the format, hearing about this "projector", and starting a less than fruitful search for it.

[Steve Klare]

It's all good fun, Osi!

-it stops being a hobby when you can’t have fun with it!

[Chip Gelmini]

"EUPIG!"

What the audience shouts when the projectionist burps.......