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From: Bill Carpenter <wcarpen107@yahoo.com><br>
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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: tahoma,new york,times,serif">Hi David and everybody.<br>
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Yes, the first Still Store was built for CBS, and was called the ESS or the ESS-1. This was a sorta spin off from the AVA, which we had in the late &0's and built 7, + 1 (but that's another story)<br>
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Then we built the ESS-2 which would handle real time video. I don't know how many of these were built, but they were Great.<br>
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Then in 1983, the ESS-3 came along, was shown @ NAB, and immediately redesigned, to make it more flexible and scalable.<br>
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I moved from VTR's to Graphic's at the request of Engineering and Marketing Management. <br>
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I had introduced the VPR-3,and had a solid $ 40 million dollar order backlog before the first unit shipped, so in July of 1983, I moved over as the Product Manager of Graphics, and re-introduced the redesigned ESS-3 and the new AVA-3 in 1984. <br>
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I had learn about digital video and object based programming and databases, in a big hurry. OBTW along with this came learning how to deal with Graphic Artist's and some interesting union problems.<br>
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<div>CFI's edit rooms were small (IIRC) but they cranked out a lot of material at that time. Was the still store the ESS (?)? Was not CBS News the first to have that (if I am calling it the right product name)?</div>
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<div>The brains behind the AVR's and ACR's etc. were extensive from what I can tell. Perhaps some day you could confirm (or otherwise) the story I heard about the AVR-1 "disappearing" then " reappearing" from behind the iron curtain in the 70's, only to be followed by a Russian product curiously similar.</div>
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<div>Ampex certainly excelled in product engineering. </div>
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<div>Thanks for the insights!</div>
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<div> Hi David and everybody,<br>
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I worked very closely with CFI in those days, and I am trying to remember my friend who I last saw at an outfit that was colorizing movies. His name may have been Gary Thompson. I tried to get him into a BIG still store system about 1984. I think he went on to something with Disney.<br>
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The AVR-1 was the greatest, but also a very complex machine. The Charley Coleman designs were Great, but usually very complicated. <br>
I worked with Al Trost on three great machines as the Product Manager during the Design Phase and the Product Introduction, the AVR-2, the VPR-20, and the VPR-3. His designs were usually very basic, and clean, and bulletproof.<br>
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All of the very complex Ampex machines were also relatively small volume products. <br>
Namly the AVR-1, ACR-25, ADR-150, AVR-3, ACR-225, and DCT 1700, all never passed the 500 unit built milestone. I don't know about the D2 machines?<br>
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<div>The AVR1-1 will correct the same wide ranging errors, hence many facilities recorded on VR-2000's and played back on the AVR-1 in the edit bays. CFI was one of them. In that manner, an error in record guide position could be immediately caught.</div>
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