<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 David and everybody.<br><br>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><br>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><br>Then in 1983, the ESS-3 came along, was shown @ NAB, and immediately redesigned, to make it more flexible and scalable.<br><br>I moved from VTR's to Graphic's at the request of Engineering and Marketing Management. <br><br>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><br>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><div> <br>Bye for now, Bill Carpenter<br></div><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> David Crosthwait <david@dcvideo.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> Wed, December 8, 2010 7:26:44 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> Hello Bill,<div><br></div><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><div><br></div><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><div><br></div><div>Ampex certainly excelled in product engineering. </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for the insights!</div><div><br></div><div>David</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Dec 6, 2010, at 7:17 PM, Bill Carpenter wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <div
style="font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br><div> Hi David and everybody,<br><br>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><br>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><br>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><br>Bye for now, Bill<br><br></div><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> David Crosthwait <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:david@dcvideo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:david@dcvideo.com">david@dcvideo.com</a>><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Quad List <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com">quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com</a>><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Mon, December 6, 2010 12:38:22 PM<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>
<div>Bill,</div><div><br></div><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><div><br></div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: medium;"><div><div>David Crosthwait</div><div>DC Video</div><div>Archived Media Transfer and Re-mastering Services</div><div>177 West Magnolia Blvd.</div><div>Burbank, CA. 91502</div><div>818-563-1073</div><div>818-563-1177 (fax)</div><div>818-285-9942 (cell)</div><div><a rel="nofollow"
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