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I unearthed this from a archive of photos. camera date is mangled, shown as 1998-01-01, but transfer date around end 1999 (this would be more accurate) for a variety of reasons. (on early digital cameras if you let the batteries run down the dates would do this).
this picture is from my what was my family house in Reading during the 1990s and 2000s. My mum still resides there.
I purchased the metal shelf unit in 1992 – it housed a variety of AV kit and random tat over the years – but do not recall putting an ooops sound system sticker on it in the early 1990s. OOOPS did not exist until 1993 #! Also, the labelling machine used to produce it would have been a really expensive item until the late 1990s, it may not even have been invented in the early 90-s! none of us had one and you would normally have only got access to one in a medium size office until the late 90s!
The radio receiver and the laptop are late 1990s. I bought the laptop in 1998 to celebrate getting a new job in the broadcast industry. The combined modem/network card was not a work issue one (they were 3-com) but was given to me by DJ Heat from J10/KSS in 1999 (this was quite a gift in them days, they weren’t cheap but in the dotcom euphoria things got diverted from big companies – I think it came from Oracle :wink:). the thin black cable was how I got on the Internet – no broadband then, at the RHS of the shelf was a telephone socket connected to a NTL number 0118 954 31xx .
the two digits “47” on the shelf were from 47 productions, the forerunner of VFRmedia. They would have come from video cassette labels as any videos I made would have been recorded on analogue tape. (younger readers should ask their older siblings or parents what these things were :wink:) I might have just been migrating over to digital editing as a very early adopter as there used to be video recorders on that shelf which were now at the other end of the room although what happened is the edit kit was at a friends house as he could afford a better PC (it was flaky as hell though from what I remember).
I bought the radio (Sony SW-100, I still have it but its a bit battle scarred and needs some repair work) as it had good HF and Band II (FM) performance – it was used for both HF monitoring and as a check receiver for the original VFR broadcasts in 1999. I tihnk it must have been purchased around the time of the first VFR broadcasts. so the great mystery – was there an OOOPS reunion of some sort in 1999? I have a strange feeling there must have been and that was where the label came from…..
@General Lighting 490746 wrote:
so the great mystery – was there an OOOPS reunion of some sort in 1999? I have a strange feeling there must have been and that was where the label came from…..
In 1999 we were still going, so no reunion then GL…..started in 93 – first boxing club in 94, started the boxing club all nighters in Sept 98 and ran through to Sep 2000. Following the last all nighter, the three key player (me, H and Illusion) went our separate ways, those two taking the silver box rig and me the old black box mish mash kit (including the home built stuff) along with the name Ooops! (it was mine to start off with) and ran with Deadly Poison for a couple of years doing small Boxing Club shows, London free parties and various “events” around the Berks/Ox/Bucks area….
First “Reunion” was in 2005 at a London boatclub. Then did two of the Storm events at the Custard Factory in Brum (2008/2009) and pulled out of the 2010 one due to room clashes. First Reading reunion was 2011, followed by the two Reunited gigs this year.Hope that de-mystifies the years – but probably goes nowhere to resolving where your sticker came from!!!
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