Huge huge loss. I followed him in the 90s through books written about him. If you have a chance, read his autobiography called "ghost in the wires" his life story has so many twists and turns and he had so much color and humor in telling the story. Huge huge loss. so much OG history from the good ol days.

Also in my experience the best quality you can get is to buy a MINI DV camcorder that has firewire, most have an input function where you can input video through the camcorder to firewire. I have a JVC GRD90u and it has this functionality. USB based capture devices seem to be flaky in my experience.

I am working on a similar project with old VHS movie, if you can pick up a SVHS deck, that will help. Anything prosumer is good too. I just picked up 2 Panasonic AG1980P and that is supposed to be one of the better decks for such a purpose. I found them on goodwill's website! Hopefully they work. These have TBCs (time based correctors) which are supposed to correct issues with the picture due to damaged or old tapes, etc.