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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>I am not the expert on this list but I think NYC had older
equipment. Dennis’ pictures are pretty good. At the same time
I was spending some time with a woman that worked in the Burbank TCR
room. All of the channel control was run by General Automation computers
which pretty much had lots of switching transistors and relays. There was
some serial control of things as well. I’ll try to dig out my
photos on this. At that time, the channels in New York were for multiple
feeds not counting the time zone delays. Feeds such as local channel and
multiple sports on the weekends. In fact the time zone delays at that particular
time were driven by a system built by the company I was working for. A
computer system recording one feed and delaying for multiple hours. It was
mostly automatic. Controlling Panasonic cassette machines. You are
probably describing what happened just prior to the time frame I am
speaking. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Gary<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>
quadlist-bounces@quadvideotapegroup.com
[mailto:quadlist-bounces@quadvideotapegroup.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>DCFWTX@aol.com<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, March 27, 2009 5:03 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [QuadList] This has to be a record<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>In
a message dated 3/27/2009 12:37:20 PM Pacific Standard Time,
garyada@ix.netcom.com writes:<br>
<br>
<br>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Unrelated,
in the 80s, I had a contractor job at NBC in New York, to<br>
document the addition of a few more channels in Switching Central.
Looking<br>
over Dennis' photos brought back memories. In fact, I opened the door to<br>
the announce booth and caught Don Pardo on the phone with his broker no<br>
doubt. I have in my garage, many drawings of the system at that time
period<br>
to include the exact wiring of the GA computers and the complete equipment<br>
makup of a single channel and path. It's pretty interesting. If
anyone is<br>
interested in it, it doesn't need to sit here. Mostly blueprints which<br>
would be somewhat faded but not completely. I knew many people
previously<br>
having worked for RCA prior but I wasn't a normal fixture there.<br>
<br>
Regards, Gary<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<br>
Gary,<br>
<br>
Was switching central in NYC at that time similar to Burbank, where the whole
system was hand built, with relay switching in many, many racks, TP-90, TP-5
(Time Preset), etc.? This drove all of the record VTR's out West for zone delay
recording and such (with someone watching over it). Gray panels with rear lit
huge numbers? <br>
<br>
<br>
David</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br>
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