<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:tahoma,new york,times,serif;font-size:14pt">Hi Don, and everybody!<br><br>I remember that we shipped 256 AVR-2's in the first year. That was from April 1974 till NAB 1975. I remember a wall that looked like Monitor's, with call letters & logo's where the tally were located. I made a hit with our Photographers, sent them all over, and made a lot of large 20" 3x4 monitor sized back lit transparences. So, this was the wall facing out of the Booth in Vegas (1975) with entrances on each side. Most of the pictures were taken with the C.E. standing in the Tape Room with each hand on a machine, and color pictures on the Tekronic monitors in the bridge. Bob Sidenglanz was in the one taken at Compact Video. The logo @ one station was the big neon sign on the roof taken at night. <br><br>So, my memories related to a build rate of about 30 a month or 360 per
year. I turned the AVR-2 over to somebody else in 1976, when the AVR-3 was dumped on me to clean up!<br><br>I had the largest retrofit in the history on Ampex. The machines could not playback tapes with segments, since the Autotracking, set proper tracking and turned off, eliminating the "dither". The TBC with bad ground loops also needed work. And there were some record problems also. I had over 60 units, usually in 3's all over Hollywood, that I had to rework in a hurry.<br><br>So, in summary, 4 years could very easily equal 1200+ AVR-2's, and somehow the 1800 units seems like the total number taht I remember. I can't even remember who was the last Product Manager. <br>We built the 1200's at about 15-20 a month in 1973. They were much harder to build and test. <br><br>And with all that work, the AVR-2's made better pictures with less efforts by the operators.<br>The unions did not like eliminating block of time before playback, to set-up the
Intersync.<br>The operators who stacked small reels on the flat deck and played many commercials back to back with two machines loved the AVR-2's.<br><br>Maybe if we found who has the highest serial numbered AVR-2, then I will try to remember how I set up the serial number sequence?<br><br>That's all for now, Bill Carpenter<br><div> </div><br><div><br></div><div style="font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Don Norwood <dwnorwood@embarqmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Quad List <quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sat, December 4, 2010 9:02:59 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [QuadList] Picture of the day (link
to)---and who's in it?<br></font><br> <style type="text/css">DIV { MARGIN:0px;} </style> <div>Bill:</div> <div> </div> <div>Any idea of the total number of AVR-2's produced and how that compares to how many VR-1200 series machines were made? I have been told that there were more 1200's made than any other model, but I've not found anything in print for the 1200's. Ampex literature states that in 1978, "over 1,400 AVR-2's were in use worldwide". That's the latest reference I have for them, but I would guess that sales had peaked at that point. Any insight?</div> <div> </div> <div>Don</div> <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 0px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px;"> <div style="font: 10pt arial;">----- Original Message ----- </div> <div style="font: 10pt arial; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(228, 228, 228);"><b>From:</b> <a
rel="nofollow" title="wcarpen107@yahoo.com" ymailto="mailto:wcarpen107@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:wcarpen107@yahoo.com">Bill Carpenter</a> </div> <div style="font: 10pt arial;"><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, December 04, 2010 12:16 AM</div> <div><br></div> <div style="font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <div>In answer to the speculation of why the AVR-2's have the greatest survival rate, it was the last, Hi Performance, yet simple Quad. And it also had the best video head life (no guide servo) since you could leave the guide in one position and let the TBC and the AutoChroma do their jobs. This greatly improved the head life and tape life. Also it was more reliable due to less connectors and single board subsystems.</div></div></blockquote></div></div> </div><br>
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