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<DIV>[Quote]The first TR 800's I saw were in the QV remote truck. But the
problems with reliability were so bad that RCA assigned an engineer during one
remote in Vegas who did nothing but sit by the VTR door and waited for one of us
to yell "help, we have a runaway!".[/quote]</DIV>
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<DIV>I was that Engineer in Vegas & Denver Mile high The
problem was that RCA had a bunch of Post Production (film type) design a remote
control (copy of Ampex HS100 Slo- mo) and they where trying to use it for
NFL Replay ,, 6 button combinations to push, upper/lower
case, to store points in a story line process.. The Marketing folks
didn't have a clue... they had requested software updates, from
engineering, to speed up the machine cueing speed (after all that time
spent storing shit on the remote & operator Screwup) the tape was
almost jumping off the scanner... A simple "in point", trim and cue was all
the NFL-Live needed. In those days the button/function people had stupid
expectations because of a lack of experence of Live Network
Broadcasting</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>It has been said on this Board that NBC did not try
TR800's.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>"NOT True"</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>NBC NYC did have 2ea TR800's installed on the
5th floor. Special NBC consols were designed. I was the RCA Engineer that was
sent to NBC to cure a thermal problem with the TBC.. The RCA design
Engineer, Jim Parker was absolutly brilliant, but refused to use the normal
practice of bypassing the TBC in EE .. the NBC operators
saw vector jitter(CB) in EE and it was impossible to fix..NBC sent the
Machines back ( I told Steve Bonica the truth & was offered a Job at NBC )
The second Shop Order of Tr-800 used a TBC from Florida...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Ray Baldock worked on the TR-800 Factory QC in
1981..</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>He was part of a group from UK / Jersey Isle
working for Peter Dare (later Sony) in the factory to </FONT><FONT size=2
face=Arial>ship the first production of 6 Machines </FONT><FONT size=2
face=Arial>to South America by Dec 15th 1981.. They failed! </FONT><FONT size=2
face=Arial>and Dare left RCA.. Ray worked on the design of Silver Lake
</FONT><FONT size=2 face=Arial>(Cart Machine replacement for TCR 100) and
he went to Odetics when RCA Closed..</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Note: Three of us from Tech Alert set up an
Engineering factory Audit.. The factory shipped to Audit and we
fixed</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>all the faults before shipping to Customers. The
first TR 800</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>had > 2000 Engineering Change Orders, it was a
nightmare.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>We feed back the faults to the factory but they
didn't change anything, actually thing got worse.. Broadcast moved to
Gibbsboro</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I did save the Ampex VPR-3 from been rejected by
NBC-NY</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>(Bancroft was Ampex Field Engineer)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Phillip G. Shaw</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>