<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><FONT SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Hello Allan,<BR>
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"Music to my ears". That is the exact description I would use too! <BR>
Although ACR's were very expensive devises ($250,000?), in commercial <BR>
playback operations, they were the "cash machine" and allowed sales <BR>
departments (and news operations such as the one you worked in) to <BR>
randomly change cassette sequences up till the very last seconds. I <BR>
seem to recall broken pins on the carousel as one of the causes for <BR>
failure. As seen on the youtube video, that particular machine had some <BR>
of the carriage assembly exposed. I would surmise from this that they <BR>
had the normal "issues" with this part of the machine.<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">David Crosthwait<BR>
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In a message dated 8/18/2008 5:48:13 AM Pacific Daylight Time, amcc@loc.gov writes:<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">recall this machine very well also. Except that our application in the Washington DC News Bureau for CBS News was to insert news segments into network broadcasts, instead of for commercial breaks. Like others, we also used it with a zero roll which was really appreciated in the Control Room. <BR>
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At the time we installed the ACR25, we were having issues with management over "not getting scheduled meal breaks". One evening, the News INSERT I had loaded for the news feed physically broke and jammed the machine. When questioned, I had to reply that the machine had refused to miss another meal and had eaten the tape. All that aside, I was always fascinated by the ACR25 and loved to watch and hear it as it moved and loaded those tape cassettes. That was music to my ears. <BR>
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Allan <BR>
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