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<div>In the 1980s, Bell & Howell - Columbia - Paramount (Later Rank Video Systems USA) in Northbrook, IL, had a contract to dub material to U-matic for AFRTS. They were recorded on special blue shell cassettes that were re-cycled back to BHCP for testing and re-use. They had about 500 machines set up to deal with this. There was also some government recording done on 8mm hi-8 tape, but I am not sure what the eventual destination of these was.</div>
<div>Bob Bruner</div>
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<TD style="FONT: 11px arial; BACKGROUND: #f9f9f9; COLOR: #000000">Re: [QuadList] Super Bowl I Videotape-Could an Armed Forces Networkbicycle tape be in some dark warehouse?</TD></TR>
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<div style="FONT-FAMILY: tahoma,new york,times,serif; FONT-SIZE: 14pt">Hi Park & Everybody,<br>
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Early in 1986, I was at a TV conference in Hamburg, Germany, which was on a Friday and Saturday, and I was presenting on Saturday afternoon.<br>
That evening over good Italian Food, my local salesman Lutz Mulller, told me that we should have a good drive back to Franfurt on Sunday morning. <br>
I told him I wanted to get back in time to watch the Chicago Bears in the Super Bowl at the hotel which had an AFRTS feed. <br>
Well, light blowing snow, good high speed snow tires on MB and we cruised back at 120MPH.<br>
The game came on at 10:30 PM locally and I fell asleep in the first Quarter and woke up at the end during the Celebration.<br>
BYTW, I helped make a pitch in LA, to sell VPR-3's, to the AFRTS center in 84, and after the 30 minute presentation in the CE's office we saw some paper charts showing they were buying Sony, so during the conversation I asked what they were doing with their AVR-1's and they said that nobody wanted them, so they were to be scrapped. <br>
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I made one phone call to our office in Bethesday, caught the Regional Manager, Frank Rush, discussed a Trade-In program he had used, he said he would contact the right person in the Pentagon, and have him call the CE in the morning. <br>
We sold 15 fully loaded VPR-3's from those phone calls.<br>
In the 90's they also bought ACR-225's for some places in Europe, and Italy was the first of 5 units.<br>
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Bill Carpenter<br>
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