<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">We have a winner in the switcher guess: Wayne Watson responded privately:</span></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">"It is a Ross Video model 508 from about 1979."</span></font></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000080" face="Arial, sans-serif"><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></i></font></div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0in; 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</font></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">He should know as Ross was a Canadian company.</font></span></font></span></i></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><i><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: navy; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><br></font></span></i></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000080"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Here it is:</span></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000080"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000080"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><img height="738" width="1280" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" id="009c416a-c858-4bfd-ab86-78768e9a081b" src="cid:4D070295-1B88-4488-BE0A-0A883156C4A7"></span></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000080"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000080" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><img height="361" width="588" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" id="18969600-6ed3-464f-bae0-d15f2df2d02b" src="cid:789502B9-D631-4F4C-918B-0983CEEFBA40"></span></font><img height="207" width="476" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" id="ac81f05d-fb31-49a2-86f8-784be7781c8d" src="cid:65116AF1-AA33-4DF0-8E6A-85459446E919"></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; "><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: navy; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "> </span></font></span></p></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Quad list member Gary Adams throttled back on his answer (thank you). I believe he worked at a facility (Pacific Video?) which had these switchers. Gary, why were they chosen over the GVG's, CDL, Ampex (or others) at the time? Did they work well?</div><div><br></div><div>David</div><div><a href="http://www.dcvideo.com">www.dcvideo.com</a></div><br><div>
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