<html><head><base href="x-msg://14/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I would love to see an Alex in action.<div><br></div><div>I was recently talking to the former production manager of the former ABC affiliate in Southwest Florida, WEVU. They had an Alex for a short time. It apparently wasn't reliable enough to use in their newscasts and they swapped it out for a Dubner 30K.</div><div><br></div><div>I was under the impression that the few that were produced were all sent back to Ampex, but I saw one at a production company in West Palm Beach named "Parallax" in the mid-1990's.</div><div><br></div><div>I also remember seeing the development systems at some small trade shows in Florida. The first time I saw it it had an Atari ST mouse attached to it, and the GUI screen was the DIgital Research GEM windowing enviroment. The next year it had a Macintosh mouse attached and the screen looked very Mac like. Always wanted to hear the stories behind that.</div><div><br><div><div>On Dec 8, 2010, at 10:22 PM, Bill Carpenter wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; 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; -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; font-size: medium; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 14pt; ">Hi Ted,<br><br>No thank you, The "Alex" Character generator was a product of the group that made the switchers in Colorado.<br><br>I had provided the best Demo folks for it, the ones who I had hired for the ESS-3 demo's. I moved on to Market Development for the D2 format, mostly the ACR-225.<br><br>Bye for now, Bill<br></div></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>