<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Bill and Scott,<div><br></div><div>Thanks for the reminders on Florida based manufacturers. I had always thought that Fortel product was actually designed and made out of the country. Vital filled a niche in switcher needs when GVG and others were too costly. The Squeeze Zoom was revolutionary, being used in many a music video in the early era of MTV style effects.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div><div><div>David</div><div>DC Video</div><div><a href="http://www.dcvideo.com/">www.dcvideo.com</a></div></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div>On Feb 24, 2011, at 10:41 PM, Scott Thomas wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Sorry, I just caught up and saw Bill Spencer's note on Fortel. I didn't know they were in Florida. My apologizes.<br><br><br><br>On Feb 25, 2011, at 1:37 AM, Scott Thomas wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">The only Florida based video company I know of that dealt with digital video was Vital Industries. They made the infamous SqueezeZoom. I was told that at least one of the Vital guys went on to start Florical after Vital went bye-bye. Perhaps someone there knows?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I'm not saying there couldn't be other engineering companies in Florida, but it's the most famous one.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">On Feb 24, 2011, at 3:39 PM, David Crosthwait wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Off hand, I cannot place what company that TBC manufacturer would have been in Florida. They may have been repackaging Japanese, British, or German product. Just a guess. Maybe John or Don would know from that era.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Please trim posts to relevant info when replying!<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Send QuadList list posts to <a href="mailto:QuadList@quadvideotapegroup.com">QuadList@quadvideotapegroup.com</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Your subscribe, unsubscribe and digest options are here:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://mail.quadvideotapegroup.com/mailman/listinfo/quadlist_quadvideotapegroup.com">http://mail.quadvideotapegroup.com/mailman/listinfo/quadlist_quadvideotapegroup.com</a><br></blockquote><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Please trim posts to relevant info when replying!<br>Send QuadList list posts to <a href="mailto:QuadList@quadvideotapegroup.com">QuadList@quadvideotapegroup.com</a><br>Your subscribe, unsubscribe and digest options are here:<br><a href="http://mail.quadvideotapegroup.com/mailman/listinfo/quadlist_quadvideotapegroup.com">http://mail.quadvideotapegroup.com/mailman/listinfo/quadlist_quadvideotapegroup.com</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>
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