[QuadList] Help get a VR-1000B to NAB --Update--Mike Boland donates $1000

Tue Mar 8 19:49:59 CST 2016

How  big is this  thing?  in what  world  does  cost 
$25,000  to bring the machine to the show. 

my gut  says thee is something wrong  with  this  price.
prove me wrong.

Ed#

In a message dated 3/8/2016 12:51:41 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
quadlist at quadvideotapegroup.com writes:

-----Original Message-----
Subject: Re: Help get a  VR-1000B to NAB --Update--Mike Boland donates $1000
From: Ted Langdell  <Ted at quadvideotapegroup.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 11:51:18  -0800
Cc: "<quadlist at quadvideotapegroup.com>"  <QuadList at quadvideotapegroup.com>,
Tom Sprague  <trs02446 at verizon.net>, Pete Fasciano <imagenda at aol.com>,
Jay  Ballard <TK41C at aol.com>, "Paul R. Beck"  <Paul_Beck at emerson.edu>
To: Ted Langdell  <ted at quadvideotapegroup.com>

Quad list member and Boland Communications LCD/OLED monitor  company 
founder Mike Boland has donated $1000 to get the VR 1000B  to NAB. 

Richard Milton has donated $35. Park Seward has donated $100.  Norm  Herzog 
has donated $100. Chuck Conrad donated $50, and Glen Pensinger kicked  it 
off with $50.  

That's $1335 and $23,665 to go. 

34 days left until Wednesday, March 30.

$696.02 needed per day to  raise the total. Please share with your friends 
and broadcast  colleagues.

https://www.gofundme.com/wmbtorg

And visit Mike in the Boland booth: SL4995

http://nab16.mapyourshow.com/7_0/exhibitor/exhibitor-details.cfm?ExhID=396&C
FID=182736697&CFTOKEN=2d08dab5175884b5-8327B944-5056-9271-4E451899CCB44486

Thanks to all!

Ted

Ted Langdell
Secretary, Quad Videotape Group
_Ted at quadvideotapegroup.com_ (mailto:Ted at quadvideotapegroup.com) 
(530)301-2931

Dictated into and Sent from my iPhone, which is solely  responsible for any 
weird stuff I didn't catch.

On Mar 2, 2016, at 12:33 PM, Ted Langdell <_ted at quadvideotapegroup.com_ 
(mailto:ted at quadvideotapegroup.com) >  wrote:

Greetings on the first Hump-day in March!

There seems to be some confusion about the nature of the VR-1000B that  the 
Museum of Broadcast Technology wants to display at NAB on the 60th  
Anniversary of Videotape.

About the VR-1000B involved in this NAB 2016 Display:

This post is to clarify:

MBT has two VR-1000 models:  The one they’d like to display at  NAB which 
is seen here in Sept. 2013:

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and another just to the right of this unit’s racks that uses VR-1200  
electronics, which was posted about earlier this week.

Confused?:

Perhaps the confusion occurred when a photo of the machine with  VR-1200 
electronics was posted, but the poster but did not change the  subject line or 
make clear which machine was involved.

A later series of posts attempted to do that including several that  were 
sent by MBT co-founders who aren’t subscribed to the QuadList.  Yet. 

(See below for their comments and what I’m doing to subscribe  them.)

Because of that, I’ve had some off-list e-mails from people who were  
confused.  So this e-mails is an attempt to address that.  

Please make sure you DO change the subject line when taking a thread  in 
another direction, and please DO try to caption pictures in such a way  that it
’s clear what’s pictured. 

Ooopses happen, and I hope we can forgive them and do better  moving 
forward. 

The machine to be displayed as it is now:

This photo shows the VR-1000B to be displayed in operation at MBT,  with 
its two racks of tube electronics to the right of the  transport:

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What this VR-1000B is equipped with:

Tom Sprague advised in a non-list communication that this machine  for NAB 
has what was “native” to the VR-1000 series:

“One thing I should make clear is that we did NOT modify the machine  for 
color operation."

Yes, the original VR-1000B could not do "direct color," but the  official 
Ampex upgrade path was to install Intersync, Amtec, and  Colortec. 

That is what was done at some time in the past, maybe 1964 or  1965? The 
machine came all wired and all modified for these  accessories. 

The machine was in service at least until 1975, so it operated as  a color 
machine for most of  its life. 

Tom"

Regarding the “other” machine, Tom advised:

"Yes Ted. David is pictured with the VR-1000HB. This is a VR-1000B  
converted to high band with VR-1200 components by Ampex of Canada. The  conversion 
was offered as a kit. 

We have had that one working for a while. 

Tom"

MBT co-founder Jay Ballard replied to the post containing the picture  of 
the “other” machine," (which didn’t go out to the QuadList because he’s  
not yet subscribed.)

In the message CC'd to the poster Jay's MBT colleagues and myself, he  said:

Tom has worked tirelessly to get the 1000B working w/o  complete 
documentation.  It  eventually locks up and plays LBC  with AMTEC  and Colortec..  We 
are desperate for an Ampex tube  Intersync drawing, V6

I had to rebuild the WFMs, PIXM, and 5 250 V 1 Amp  PSUs in between camera 
repairs.  BTW, it is not the VTR in the  picture, but it is to the left of 
that VTR.

Tom deserves the Order of the Iron Test Pattern for  his hard work. Me, the 
John Frishette award for boozing.

Jay  Ballard

Note: (I am attempting to subscribe all four MBT  correspondents to the 
QuadList, as their replies have been held as  non-subscribers.  However the 
admin access right now is not behaving  properly.  Bad caps? Off frequency?  
Will try again later  from a different device.)

Donating:

Getting this example of the first model of video  tape recorder to NAB for 
the 60th anniversary of the unveiling of  commercially successful video tape 
can be achieved if you and 991  other people contribute $25 or more.

QuadList and long-time engineer, SMPTE Member and  author Glen Pensinger 
kicked the drive off with a $50 contribution on  Sunday. 

Chuck Conrad followed with $50 on Monday.  

And 18 hours ago, former Ampex “old timer” and  Quad guy Norm Herzog gave 
$100.

So there’s only  $24,800 to go. 

The Museum needs to have funds in hand by March  30.

33 people a day making a  $25 contribution
15 people a day making a  $50 donation or 
8.26 people a day giving  $100

Where to donate:

The clock is ticking  and Museum of Broadcast Technology has reactivated 
its GoFundMe  page:

https://www.gofundme.com/wmbt.org

What you can do in addition to funding this  project:  

Please share this with your  friends and colleagues, the broadcast 
engineering and technology societies  of which you may be a member. 

Pass the hat at your March  organization meetings, (or pass around an iPad 
set to the go fund me page,  so individuals can make contributions while 
your meeting is in progress.)  

At the least, print out a  flyer with this information.  (I’ll try to 
devise a PDF and post it  to the list.)

Use your Social Media  (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) to spread the word.

Your contributions are  tax-deductible, and will be recognized by the 
Museum of Broadcast  Technology, and by the Quad Videotape Group which is helping 
the  fundraising effort.

The Museum of Broadcast  Technology has been bringing equipment to NAB 
since 2013, beginning with  the smallest quad machine you've ever seen, the 
Ampex VR – 3000.  In  2014, they brought an RCA TP-10 portable Quad.  

Your help will make it more likely that there’s a Quad machine  at NAB on 
the 60th Anniversary of the unveiling of videotape.

These machines provided work for engineers,  employment for television 
production staff, Ampex employees and their  parts manufacturers, and improved 
the quality of what television viewers  have seen since 1956… particularly on 
the West Coast and then  world-wide.

Thanks for your time, interest and help moving this machine from  
Woonsocket, Rhode Island to Las Vegas and back. 

It will certainly give us all something to talk about and marvel at  during 
the Quad Videotape Group Annual Lunch at NAB at 12:30pm, Tuesday,  April 
19, 2016.

And a working backdrop for oral histories about your experiences with  
VR-1000s and other Quad machines.

Cheers!

Ted

Ted  Langdell
Secretary
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