<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 Chris,<br><br>In the days that SMPTE time code was being finalized, the code was to be 72 or maybe 75?<br><br>Stan Busby of Ampex reviewed the documentation, some which was offered by one of the early time code equipment designers, <br>which may have been ECCO.<br>He created a very strong counter proposal to move it up to 80 bits. <br><br>Ampex and others were working on 75 bit code devices and everyone realized that Stan was right and everything was changed,<br>including equipment being tested in the field.<br><br>I will ask Stan about those times the next time I see him.<br><br>Bye for now, Bill Carpenter<br><div> </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> "Chill315@aol.com" <Chill315@aol.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Fri, December 24, 2010 5:27:06 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [QuadList] Ampex RA-4000<br></font><br>
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<div>I was going through some items and came across my book for the
RA-4000 editing controller. A beautiful device but with no memory
for an EDL.</div>
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<div>This was probably the fastest editor that I have ever used. Everyone
loved it for doing commercials. If fact I did one night over 20 in an hour
that were cores with product and prices to be filled in the holes. We had
five machines tied to it. 2 VR-1200B's and 4 AVR-2's. </div>
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<div>Somewhere I had read that this was originally a 72 bit machine. The
current book has the nomenclature 80 Bit on the instruction book. Does
anyone know the history behind this product and was there a non 80 bit product
released?</div>
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<div>Chris Hill</div>
<div>WA8IGN</div></font></div></div>
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