<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Searching online since I'm not traveling with my hard copy of "The History of Television, 1942-2000" by Albert Abramson... we find on Page 195 that:</div><div><br></div><div>The RCA Hawkeye (HC-1) three Plumbicon camera-VTR was shown at the Radio-Television News Driector's Association (RTNDA) in New Orleans, Sept. 10-12, 1981.</div><div><br></div><div>Page 196 of the same book reports that Sony showed a prototype Betacam at the 1982 NAB, using a single high-band SMF Trinicon tube. </div><div><br></div><div>Abramson reports that RCA showed the Hawkeye at the 1982 NAB, </div><div><br></div><div>Ikegami added an M-format recorder to the side of an HL-83. </div><div><br></div><div>Bosch showed a KBF-1 camcorder with three half-inch Plumbicons and a quarter-inch cassette deck using the Lineplex format.</div><div><br></div><div>Other things of note: </div><div><br></div><div>At NAB 1981, the 25th anniversary of Quad was celebrated.</div><div><br></div><div>Ampex claimed it had sold more than half the broadcast video recorders used world-wide, delivered its 2000th VPR-2B and sold its 3,000th VPR-2B. It showed the VPR-80 for $34,900, without TBC.</div><div><br></div><div>Sony showed the BVH-2000 at around $39,000 without TBC.</div><div><br></div><div>Bosch-Fernseh brought the BCN-21 portable and BCN-51 studio recorders. The early BCN's were also marketed by IVC (International Video Corp.) as the IVC 8000 series machines.</div><div><br></div><div>IVC had been taken over by Cezar International in 1981. It showed the "IVC-1." And the rest of the detail is on page 197, which is not in the on-line preview. Can't tell you more since I don't have my hard-copy with me. </div><div><br></div><div>(An IVC 1070 "Chromacon 10" is mentioned on page 105 of Charles Bensinger's 1981 "The Video Guide", found online at:</div><div><a href="http://videopreservation.conservation-us.org/vid_guide/9/9.html)">http://videopreservation.conservation-us.org/vid_guide/9/9.html)</a></div><div><br></div><div>Abramson says that at the 1982 NAB, 3M demoed the new TT-8000 3M/NEC Type C recorder that featured color playback without a TBC and met new FCC Part 15 EMA rules that would take effect in Oct. 1982.</div><div><br></div><div>3M mentioned that more than 14,000 Quad machines had been sold during the 25 years since Ampex pressed record and then play on the Mark IV in Chicago.</div><div><br></div><div>Abramson reports that a "highlight reel" was shown of memorable events that had been recorded on tape including the Nixon/Khrushchev debate, Kennedy inauguration and assassination aftermath, Apollo moon landing and the US Hockey Team's Olympic victory.</div><div><br></div><div>Wonder where <i>that</i> tape is, and how many generations down the various segments were.</div><div><br></div><div>Have a good morning...</div><div><br></div><div>Ted </div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Ted Langdell</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Secretary</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#0018ea" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 24, 234); "></font></div></div></div></span></div><br><div><div>On Feb 1, 2010, at 7:19 AM, Gideon4 wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; 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; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial"><span class="890503711-01022010">I think Hawkeye came first, I have the date for the Hawkeye HC-1 as c.1979-80. In retrospect, it's very tricky to say who was first with something, "marketing" have a habit of promoting the camera before it is actually ready to be sold!</span></font></div><div><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial"><span class="890503711-01022010"></span></font> </div><div><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial"><span class="890503711-01022010">The best place to date things is in the NAB/IBC reports for the period.</span></font></div><div><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial"><span class="890503711-01022010"></span></font> </div><div><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial"><span class="890503711-01022010">In Europe there was the Bosch Quarter Cam, in retrospect not successful, but an interesting attempt. It probably came after the RCA Hawkeye.</span></font></div><div><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial"><span class="890503711-01022010"></span></font> </div><div><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial"><span class="890503711-01022010">Brian Summers</span></font></div><div><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial"><span class="890503711-01022010">UK member</span></font></div><blockquote dir="ltr" style="margin-right: 0px; "><div dir="ltr" class="OutlookMessageHeader" align="left"><font face="Tahoma"><font size="2"></font></font> </div><div class="Section1"><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; ">David<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; "><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black; font-size: 10pt; ">I think he falsely claims that the Betac</span></i><span class="apple-style-span"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black; font-size: 9pt; ">am was "The first one-piece camera and recorder ever made). I believe Panasonic's M-Format "Recam" beat them.</span></i></span><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black; font-size: 10pt; "><o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; "><i><o:p> </o:p></i></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; ">I think it went M or was that Hawkeye<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; ">Betacam<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; ">M2<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; ">Beta SP<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; ">M2 and SP were very close<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; ">and release dates may have been different in the UK<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; ">TrevorB<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; ">UK Member<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; "><o:p> </o:p></div></div></blockquote></div></span></blockquote></div><br></body></html>