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<DIV>Very interesting Bill. We sold some Magni gear, but only traditional
waveform and vector units as I recall. There were certainly some companies
that got a foothold in the industry due to Tek's attitude. Videotek is
another example, although it took them longer to grow into the quality and level
of innovation that Magni seemed to acquire right out of the gate. </DIV>
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<DIV>Don</DIV>
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<A title=wcarpen107@yahoo.com href="mailto:wcarpen107@yahoo.com">Bill
Carpenter</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, January 19, 2011 9:55
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [QuadList] OT: How to move a
VPR-80 in a sidecar cabinetwithout a truck or trailer--AVR 2 Next??</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: tahoma,new york,times,serif; FONT-SIZE: 14pt">Yes
that Barco is a good monitor, I specified it and Barco built it for me. I was
trying to get Tek to build it, but all they would offer me was a repackaged
Sony TV set. <BR><BR>I would not accept this for a Broadcast product from
Ampex, and this was years before we started working with Sony on the BetaSP
products<BR><BR>An interesting byproduct of that negotiation was that some
folks left Tektronix's and started Magni, and one of the early products was a
waveform sampling product that I specified and Tek would not build, since they
wanted to PROTECT their monitor products. <BR><BR>If I remember correctly it
was Victor Kong who was later the top engineer at Magni, and it he was who
told me, at Tek, that he understood what I wanted, why it was needed by the
Industry, but he could not make it for me. <BR>(This may have been the cause
that started Magni?)<BR><BR>So, if things had worked out different, we would
have had a Tektronix 9" monitor and a Wave Form sampler instead Barco and the
528.<BR><BR></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>