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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>In the early 70s, a friend of mine and I visited WBBM in
Chicago. I was currently working at a CBS affiliate in Lincoln, NE.
We got a great tour and spent quite a bit of time with the ACR-25 specialist
(wish I knew his name). Gave us the great 7.5 second turnaround
test. Very impressive. Wanted one for our very own as we were making
“daily” reels over night to free up the machines during the
day. We ended up getting to sit in their news room studio during their
local news. They had us sit at two of the news desks looking like we worked
there since it was also part of the set. We were pretty scared when they
threw a story to the person at the desk next to ours. The lights came up and
they started their report. A bit worried we would have to do one. Great
fun. It was in the Cronkite era so the CBS ONOs sort of did the same thing.
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>I came back to our humble station and pleaded with the Chief
Engineer on the advantages of the ACR. We ended up buying a demo
TCR-100. I threatened to quit (being quite juvenile at the time).
In the end I did quit going to work for RCA working on TCR-100s among other
things. Looking back, either way was fine, my path would have been quite
different if they would have bought the ACR. Probably would have been
working with David now. </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
Wingdings;color:#1F497D'>J</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Gary<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
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quadlist-bounces@quadvideotapegroup.com
[mailto:quadlist-bounces@quadvideotapegroup.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>David
Crosthwait<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, March 01, 2011 11:38 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Quad List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [QuadList] Ampex Models<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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