[QuadList] Does anyone have/know of working or "could be working" VR-1000's?

[Ted Langdell]

Greetings from gray and sometime rainy northern California...

Does anyone have/know of working or "could be working" VR-1000's?

That's a question that new QuadList member Steve Spears posed at the  
beginning of a series of e-mail exchanges with me over the last few  
days.

Steve lives in Orrs Island,  Maine and is—as he puts it—the caretaker  
for Ampex VR-1000C, serial# 830, shipped to KLEW-TV, Lewiston, ID in  
1960, and retired from sister station KEPR-TV, Pasco, Washington in  
1990.

The machine was working at the time of power-down, and he expects it  
will return to functioning when powered up (with appropriate care, of  
course.)

The machine's availability for removal from KEPR-TV was featured in a  
1990 TV Technology article. I'm curious to know whether anyone has a  
collection of TV Technology magazines and might be able to dig up the  
item.

Steve writes that his experience with Quad goes back to 1957 at KGO-TV  
in San Francisco.  I'll let him carry the story from there.

Thinking about answers to the question:

I know David Crosthwait has at least one in storage... and IIRC, the  
Museum of Broadcast Technology in Woonsocket, RI has one.

A VR-1000 that was at VidiPax in New York was split up... deck is now  
with a QuadList member's company near Pittsburgh, and the electronic  
racks went to...

(fade up...
"Where have all the One-Thousands gone?
Long time passing."

Ted.

Ted Langdell
Secretary

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