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<DIV>Bill</DIV>
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<DIV>That was a great session at the SMPTE meeting. Yes I do remember Hugo
Bundy. A little bit of a southern character. The state of ENG at
that time was so primitive. The equipment was not designed to do what we
were doing. It was amazing that there were not more issues. The cost
benefits were so great that we had to proceed down that path. </DIV>
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<DIV>Frank was a great field engineer. I still remember how we spent a
long night trying to resolve why the RA-4000 would not do match frame edits with
the AVR-2's that we had. About 3 in the morning we proved that it was the
boost was still on when the RA-4000 sensed lock and released tape speed over
ride. Then the boost would cause the machine to slip a frame. The
RA-4000 only needed one frame of time code match to say sync was achieved.
I had been going down that road and he was going down the road that the problem
was in the AVR-2. That was because we also had VR-1200's on the
RA-4000. The AVR-2 with the DC capstan was so good at lock up.</DIV>
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<DIV>Anyway Frank gave me a great saying over this. "Some times you need
someone to come along grab your ears and pull your head out of your rear so
you can see the problem from the right way."</DIV>
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<DIV>He came up with a fix that worked better than the factory came up with
later when they issued a field bulletin.</DIV>
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<DIV>Lastly, the ACR-25 was such a great machine. It never broke unless
the smell of burnt plastic was from the melting of the drive hub that mated from
the spools in the cassette acted up. </DIV>
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<DIV>I saw the RCA machine at other stations and how much they had to do to keep
it going. You guys did it right.</DIV>
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<DIV>Chris Hill</DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 2/28/2011 9:50:33 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
wcarpen107@yahoo.com writes:</DIV>
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<TD vAlign=top>Hi Cris and everybody!<BR><BR>Yes, That was a great
meeting, and my paper was sort of an alternative answer to the ENG
question. The handwriting was on the wall related to Eng, when we came
back to the Hotel later on Friday night after driving in the heavy snow
and found that the "crackbarrel" session in a small room on the lower
level was attended by maybe 200 engineers mostly out in the halllway,
not the 25-30 that normally go to those unplanned & unstructured
sessions.<BR><BR>The next day, a good old southern boy from Atlanta,
Hugo Bundy (if my 35+ years memory is right) got up and tore apart every
piece equipment that he had used! <BR>Then he put up a slide of his
ACR-25, and stated that without this machine the whole ENG effort would
have been unuseable!<BR>He said they would roll the 3/4" field tapes
many times and record each time until they got the one that worked
and then use the ACR to clip the ends, and also that this would allow
last second changes in the news playback on an "as required" basis with
NO PROBLEMS. <BR>The ACR was his last slide and was on-sceen for over
half on his paper and all of the Q & A.<BR>I was sitting next to Don
Kleffman, our Marketing Manager, and two levels above me, when leaned
over and asked me if I had anything to do with this presentation?<BR>I
answered NO, but I was sure going to buy the man a drink or more before
the weekend was over! Don was pleased with my answer!<BR><BR>Bill
Carpenter<BR><BR>PS: Frank Davis was always a great field engineer and a
good friend, both at Belo, and previously at Northwest
Teleproductions.<BR><BR>--- On <B>Mon, 2/28/11, Chill315@aol.com
<I><Chill315@aol.com></I></B> wrote:<BR>
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Chill315@aol.com <Chill315@aol.com><BR>Subject: [QuadList] Ampex
Models<BR>To: quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com<BR>Date: Monday,
February 28, 2011, 4:35 PM<BR><BR>
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<DIV>I was not sure of the actual count and I thought there might be
21. The question was answered with all sorts of speed.
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<DIV>The ones that I thought might be difficult were the E models
of the 1100 and the 1200. Also the VR-3000B.</DIV>
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<DIV>I did see the VR-3000B demonstrated at the Detroit SMPTE meeting
as an alternative to 3/4 tape. It worked beautifully. The
operating cost must have been against it. Frank Davis was at the
meeting and manned the booth. He later became a VP at
Belo. </DIV>
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<DIV>I know of another VR-1200 that had the detachable monitor
rack. This was sold to the University of Michigan Television
Center. It was used in the studio and in a remote truck that
only did a few shows in black and white. There was a monitor
setup in the truck.</DIV>
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<DIV>Now were there any VR-1001B models? The reason that I
ask is that the Intersync book tells about how to install the
Intersync in the VR-1001A. Was it standard in the B model?
So who can answer this question?</DIV>
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