<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Greetings from gray and sometime rainy northern California...</div><div><br></div><div>Does anyone have/know of working or "could be working" VR-1000's?</div><div><br></div><div>That's a question that new QuadList member Steve Spears posed at the beginning of a series of e-mail exchanges with me over the last few days.</div><div><br></div><div>Steve lives in Orrs Island, Maine and is—as he puts it—the caretaker for Ampex VR-1000C, serial# 830, shipped to KLEW-TV, Lewiston, ID in 1960, and retired from sister station KEPR-TV, Pasco, Washington in 1990.</div><div><br></div><div>The machine was working at the time of power-down, and he expects it will return to functioning when powered up (with appropriate care, of course.)</div><div><br></div><div>The machine's availability for removal from KEPR-TV was featured in a 1990 TV Technology article. I'm curious to know whether anyone has a collection of TV Technology magazines and might be able to dig up the item.</div><div><br></div><div>Steve writes that his experience with Quad goes back to 1957 at KGO-TV in San Francisco. I'll let him carry the story from there.</div><div><br></div><div>Thinking about answers to the question:</div><div><div><br></div><div>I know David Crosthwait has at least one in storage... and IIRC, the Museum of Broadcast Technology in Woonsocket, RI has one. </div><div><br></div><div>A VR-1000 that was at VidiPax in New York was split up... deck is now with a QuadList member's company near Pittsburgh, and the electronic racks went to... </div><div><br></div><div>(fade up... </div><div>"Where have all the One-Thousands gone?</div><div>Long time passing."</div><div><br></div><div>Ted.</div><div><br></div></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; ">Ted Langdell</font></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></body></html>