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<div>Just browsing LabGuy's World where Richard Diehl has collected an amazing assortment of consumer, industrial and broadcast tape machines.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>A recent (June 29, 08) acquisition is a Merlin Engineering ME 68 dub deck made for Vidtronics in 1977 from Shibaden SV-7000 Quad deck from Japan. Ten were made for the LA post house, and installed while the late Jack Callaway was Director of Engineering.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>A big plus—historically—is the documentation Richard received from Merlin's John Streets, who is retiring and donated the deck to Richard.</div><div><br></div><div>See the deck and some historic pictures at <a href="http://www.labguysworld.com/Merlin_ME68.htm">http://www.labguysworld.com/Merlin_ME68.htm</a></div><br><div><div>Ted</div><div><br><div><div></div></div></div></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; 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