<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Can't tell why the link's don't work. Both work for me, but that may be from my cache.</div><div><br></div><div>Cliff B reports on OldVTRs that he mailed them to himself, then posted to OldVTR's and they worked, but then so did the original links in my e-mail to OldVTR's.</div><div><br></div><div>He said "???"</div><div><br></div><div>The head assembly is HUGE. Looks almost or slightly bigger than the tape reels on the machine. I'm thinking that's a very long track that would be really fun to keep a head in the center of.</div><div><br></div><div>Ted</div><br><div><div>On Sep 16, 2010, at 4:46 PM, Don Norwood 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 bgcolor="#ffffff" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Ted:</div><div> </div><div>The links below don't work for me. They just go to a logo page for oldradio.com. I looked at the site but could not find what you have described.</div><div> </div><div>I have some RCA technical papers and pictures of the helical head assembly that was used. Don't think it ever became a real product for television, but may have been used some for wideband recording.</div><div> </div><div>Don</div><blockquote style="border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 0px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px; position: static; z-index: auto; "><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; ">----- Original Message -----</div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: rgb(228, 228, 228); background-position: initial initial; "><b>From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a title="ted@quadvideotapegroup.com" href="mailto:ted@quadvideotapegroup.com">Ted Langdell</a></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a title="QuadList@quadvideotapegroup.com" href="mailto:QuadList@quadvideotapegroup.com">Quad List</a></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Thursday, September 16, 2010 6:45 PM</div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[QuadList] OT-RCA MR-700 slant track recorder, 1961</div><div><br></div><div>What does anyone know about the RCA MR-700 slant track recorder from 1961?</div><div><br></div><div>It's pictured here in material distributed at the 1961 NAB in Washington, DC:</div><div><a href="http://www.oldradio.com/archives/hardware/TV/rca-mr700.jpg">http://www.oldradio.com/archives/hardware/TV/rca-mr700.jpg</a></div><div><br></div><div>and here next to the RCA TRT series Quad in the RCA booth:</div><div><a href="http://www.oldradio.com/archives/hardware/TV/rca-mr700ex.jpg">http://www.oldradio.com/archives/hardware/TV/rca-mr700ex.jpg</a></div><div><br></div><div>Ted</div><br><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; 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