<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 Don & Everybody,<br><br>This is an interesting thread, I was product manager for the VR-3000, and in the early fall of 1973, my boss, who had worked at WSM-TV was contacted by his ex boss, Lee Whitehurst. The had been pitched the TVR-10 for a new "venture", so we brought a group of engineers to Redwood City and had some conceptual discussions and the VR-3000 would not meet their needs. We sold them an "outline drawing", with "not to exceed" measurements and weights of a full functioning broadcast quadraplex machine to be delivered by the end of April 1974. <br>At NAB we saw the drawings of the "Bread Truck", single camera mobile they were building, for the "New Venture", Opryland. <br>I shipped the sixth production, AVR-2 from the Huston show floor on Wenesday evening and it was providing news
inserts, on the evening news in Nashville on Friday, in less than 48hrs, and was the first AVR-2 use "On-Air".<br><br>In another vein, both of the Quad based expermental digital machines ("Annie, AVR-3 based) and the AVR-2 for Montreaux, used an Octiplex head, maybe even the same one and as I remember it provided two seperate data streams. The instrumentation div of Ampex, had used this for some Govt. products, so it was a known technology.<br><br>Bill Carpenter<br><div> </div><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> Don Norwood <dwnorwood@embarqmail.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> Fri,
February 25, 2011 7:08:40 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [QuadList] RCA Models<br></font><br> <style></style> <div>David:</div> <div> </div> <div>I agree that some of the earlier RCA octaplex designs were not small, but comparing the size of the VR-3000 to the TPR-10, I would think there should be plenty of room for the additional electronics as it is considerably larger than the Ampex.</div> <div> </div> <div>Don</div> <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 0px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px;"> <div style="font: 10pt arial;">----- Original Message ----- </div> <div style="font: 10pt arial; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(228, 228, 228);"><b>From:</b> <a rel="nofollow" title="david@dcvideo.com" ymailto="mailto:david@dcvideo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:david@dcvideo.com">David Crosthwait</a> </div> <div
style="font: 10pt arial;"><b>To:</b> <a rel="nofollow" title="dwnorwood@embarqmail.com" ymailto="mailto:dwnorwood@embarqmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:dwnorwood@embarqmail.com">Don Norwood</a> ; <a rel="nofollow" title="quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com" ymailto="mailto:quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com">Quad List</a> </div> <div style="font: 10pt arial;"><b>Sent:</b> Friday, February 25, 2011 7:34 PM</div> <div style="font: 10pt arial;"><b>Subject:</b> Re: [QuadList] RCA Models</div> <div><br></div> <div>If in fact that this was some variant of an octoplex head, it sure would be an engineering feat to fit it on such a small transport. I've seen documents on RCA's earlier designs, and they are not small.</div></blockquote></div></div> </div><br>
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