<html><head><base href="x-msg://22/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Wayne,<div><br></div><div>I saw this unit at NAB in the 70's. Also saw a closed circuit broadcast (NAB summary) mentioning it also. I think this was 1976 or 77. It was a record/play transport and two separate external processors. Linear tape speed: 10 I.P.S.</div><div><br></div><div>As far as I know, it never saw a sale here. Perhaps John Turner may know. One has to remember that type C was almost accepted when this was introduced. Then, it was over for any production segmented machine, although one-inch helical type B (segmented) hung in there for five more years or so along with 2" quad ACR's and TCR's (commercial playback devises).</div><div><br></div><div><img height="170" width="320" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" id="7617ed1f-ddcb-4aa7-b456-1b1269740fbc" src="cid:AF200377-50B3-4A4E-8C65-3B597CF94AB5"> </div><div>Above, Asaka one-inch quad. Now you see it, now you don't. That's how long it lasted.</div><div><br></div><div><div>David Crosthwait</div><div>DC Video</div><div>Archived Media Transfer and Re-mastering Services</div><div>177 West Magnolia Blvd.</div><div>Burbank, CA. 91502</div><div>818-563-1073</div><div>818-563-1177 (fax)</div><div>818-285-9942 (cell)</div><div><a href="mailto:DAVID@DCVIDEO.COM">DAVID@DCVIDEO.COM</a></div><div><a href="http://WWW.DCVIDEO.COM">WWW.DCVIDEO.COM</a></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Feb 27, 2011, at 2:49 PM, Wayne Watson wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div ocsi="x"><div dir="ltr"><font face="Tahoma" color="#000000" size="2">This post jogged a very foggy old memory. In about 1973 or 74 at NAB was there a one inch quad shown by an Asian manufacturer? My recall was that it had a head that looked like a very small Ampex quad. When I went by the both I was surprised to see it, however there was nobody there at that time that could speak enough English to tell anything about it.</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma" size="2">Was there ever such a recorder was it a bad dream?</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma" size="2"></font> </div><div><div><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "></span><span style="color: navy; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Wayne Watson</span></i><i><span style="color: navy; "></span></i></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "> </p></span></font></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br>
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