<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 Folks,<br><br>I have no knowledge of any AVR-4 documentation at AMPEX.<br><br>The digital machine was not even a prototype, just the First Full Screen Digital Video Recorder Demonstration in the World. ( note: a one head pass segment of a "B" format machine, a few lines had been publicly played back to show concept in Europe earlier, by John Baldwin) had been built on a AVR-3, since the latest TBC cards were built for that machine.<br>A similar demo was made in Europe @ Montreau, using a AVR-2, and it was a 4FSC machine with 1/2 the tape consummation.<br><br>We did not use "4" in any product name after a great regional manager, Pat Burns, returned from working in Hong Kong, and explained that the number "four" meant very bad luck or death in the major Asian languages. <br>Note: This caused the entire
ESS-4 sales program, to be scrapped, and the product was renamed ESS-5, and was successful. This happened in less than a month, just before the NAB introduction.<br><br>Bill Carpenter<br><br><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> David Crosthwait <david@dcvideo.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Quad List <quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thu, February 24, 2011 3:14:15 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [QuadList] AVR-4<br></font><br> Attention Don Norwood and Bill Carpenter:<div><br></div><div>Upon review of a Spare Parts Discontinuance document from Ampex, 1991, there were 16 listing for parts for what was
itemized as "Quad AVR-4". I'm not familiar with that product. Was this the AVR-3 Digital prototype that you (Bill) had demonstrated in the 80's, or something else?</div><div><br></div><div>Curious to know,</div><div><br></div><div><div><div>David Crosthwait</div><div><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.dcvideo.com/obsolete-video-formats/2-inch-quad.html">DC Video</a></div><div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:DAVID@DCVIDEO.COM" target="_blank" href="mailto:DAVID@DCVIDEO.COM">DAVID@DCVIDEO.COM</a></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.dcvideo.com/">WWW.DCVIDEO.COM</a></span></font></div></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><br></font></div><div><div><div><br></div></div><div> <span
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