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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
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of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Camden</st1:City> <st1:State w:st="on">New
Jersey</st1:State></st1:place> that worked on the modulator and demodulator
of the RCA TR70B. My career started in the early to mid 60’s.
I also work for Ray Dolby as an intern Engineer at Ampex when I was attending
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><font size=2
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quadlist-bounces@quadvideotapegroup.com
[mailto:quadlist-bounces@quadvideotapegroup.com] <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Steve Greene<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, August 06, 2008
3:38 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b>
quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [QuadList]
Introductions</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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color=black face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;
color:black'>Wow, another RCA guy! My quad career ran from 1985-1998,
with TR-600's. Our office now contracts the duplication out, but I still
have eight TR-600's in varying states of repair, numerous headwheel panels and
reasonably complete documentation. I loved the ability to go from
high to low-band playback by flipping two switches.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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color:black'>Anyone still using TR-600's?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3
color=black face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;
color:black'>Steve Greene<br>
Archivist<br>
Nixon Presidential Library and Museum<br>
(301) 837-1772<br>
<br>
>>> jpo@prestodigital.ca 8/6/2008 12:22:30 PM >>><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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color=black face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;
color:black'>I feel like a total junior here... didn't spend much time with
engineering Quads, but I do have a special fondness for them as an operator. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=1
color=black face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;
color:black'> My history with Quad tape spanned 1976-1985. I worked
in two facilities; an on-air station in <st1:City w:st="on">Saskatoon</st1:City>,
<st1:State w:st="on">Sask</st1:State> (<st1:country-region w:st="on">Canada</st1:country-region>),
and a high-end post house in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Toronto</st1:place></st1:City>.
The on-air station was an RCA house, but converted to AMPEX when Type-C
took over with VPR-2s. Then they went SONY. The <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Toronto</st1:place></st1:City> house was AMPEX all the way.</span></font><font
color=black face=Tahoma><span style='font-family:Tahoma;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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color=black face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=1
color=black face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;
color:black'>I worked first as an engineer, then as an operator/editor at the
TV station, which had five machines in its tape room and two in a truck for
location taping. </span></font><font color=black face=Tahoma><span
style='font-family:Tahoma;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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color=black face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;
color:black'> The machines (as I recall) consisted of: one
TR-70C, used for mastering and editing "Hi-Band" commercial
programming (no timecode)</span></font><font color=black face=Tahoma><span
style='font-family:Tahoma;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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color=black face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;
color:black'>
two TR-60s, used for
on-air program and commercial playback ('short' run) and donor source video for
production</span></font><font color=black face=Tahoma><span style='font-family:
Tahoma;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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one TR-4(5?) Lo-band
recorder for programming tape delay, and</span></font><font color=black
face=Tahoma><span style='font-family:Tahoma;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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color=black face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;
color:black'>
one TR-3 (?) Lo-band
recorder, also for tape delay.</span></font><font color=black face=Tahoma><span
style='font-family:Tahoma;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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color=black face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;
color:black'>The VTRs in the truck were also TR-3's if I've got that right --
they were the horizontal flat-bed type recorders.</span></font><font
color=black face=Tahoma><span style='font-family:Tahoma;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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color=black face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;
color:black'>We avoided Lo-band where we could, but because half the machines
in the mix were Lo-band only, scheduling was critical. Lots of midnight
and very early AM shifts doing the commercial runs for the day -- this was
before the availability of a cart machine for this market. Eventually
they installed a Betacart-- circa 1986.</span></font><font color=black
face=Tahoma><span style='font-family:Tahoma;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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color=black face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;
color:black'>It was during this time that VT playback traffic went from
somewhere around 70-80 plays a day to north of 250, so the department was under
enormous pressure, handling commercial on-air, program delay, production, news,
etc., all with ONE operator and a supervisor -- who was mostly concerned with
file management and traffic rather than actual operation.</span></font><font
color=black face=Tahoma><span style='font-family:Tahoma;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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color=black face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;
color:black'>I worked as an on-line editor / vision-mixer at the post facility
in Toronto (VTR on Scollard) where five Super-HiBand AVR-3's were in
service; three directly controlled by an RA-(4000?) editor (with a Vital
Squeezoom!) for A/B Roll editing, and two more for duplication, wild
recordings, studio recording, etc. Several 7.5 ips recording heads were
acquired for feature-length capability when the facility became a film-transfer
point for the new home-video market. The important thing was to re-adjust
the erase-delay before use!</span></font><font color=black face=Tahoma><span
style='font-family:Tahoma;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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color=black face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;
color:black'> There was originally one VPR-2 (which got
"Merlin'ed), and later 3 VPR-3's showed up (late 1984?) with an ACE and
two <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">ADO</st1:place></st1:City>'s.
And I suspect those same three VPR-3's continued their careers in <st1:City
w:st="on">Edmonton</st1:City> when the <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Toronto</st1:place></st1:City>
company demised a couple of years later.</span></font><font color=black
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color=black face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;
color:black'>Its been 23 years, but if there's any little practical hands-on
thing that might help.... We needed to do a lot of on-the-spot things,
not many of them orthodox, to keep them "on-the-air"! I believe
they all had personalities, like dogs or Douglas Adams' "Marvin", in
the Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy.</span></font><font color=black
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