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    Here is a TEP.<img alt="RCA TEP"
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    On 3/7/2011 5:50 PM, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Chill315@aol.com">Chill315@aol.com</a> wrote:
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        <div>This is not the TEP.  That had thumb wheels only.</div>
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        <div>This is actually a programmer that was made by ECCO for
          RCA.  It consisted of a number of parts.  </div>
        <div>The top display was an auxiliary display panel.</div>
        <div> </div>
        <div>The Unit Programmer is the middle unit that is a couple of
          rack units.  </div>
        <div> </div>
        <div>The bottom was a transport control panel.  </div>
        <div> </div>
        <div>It was possibly a system that was first used on Laugh In. 
          Can someone confirm that?</div>
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        <div>Chris Hill</div>
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          <div>In a message dated 3/7/2011 5:31:14 P.M. Eastern Standard
            Time, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:david@dcvideo.com">david@dcvideo.com</a> writes:</div>
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              <base href="x-msg://26/">Hello Trevor,
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              <div>Thanks for the insight and the confirmation of
                similar problems with the TR 600's. At least I can say
                now "It wasn't just me".</div>
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              </div>
              <div>In regard to the TEP, here are two shots (for those
                who have no idea what we are talking about):</div>
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              <div>The TEP actually worked pretty well with the TR-70's.
                However, it was a 10 second pre-roll on the record VTR
                and five seconds on the source. Edit 2 and 3 at NBC
                Burbank had TEPs. </div>
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              <div>David</div>
              <div><a moz-do-not-send="true"
                  title="http://www.dcvideo.com/"
                  href="http://www.dcvideo.com/">www.dcvideo.com</a></div>
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                  <div>On Mar 7, 2011, at 9:08 AM, Trevor Brown wrote:</div>
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                            style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;
                            color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 11pt;">Ted
                            thanks for the heavy weight credit<o:p></o:p></span></div>
                        <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-family:
                          'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span
                            style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;
                            color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
                        <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-family:
                          'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span
                            style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;
                            color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 11pt;">We
                            had one three machine edit suite with
                            equipped with TR600’s<o:p></o:p></span></div>
                        <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-family:
                          'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span
                            style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;
                            color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 11pt;">If
                            the crew leader had asked,  do you want to
                            go and try and get the TR600’s to lock up<o:p></o:p></span></div>
                        <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-family:
                          'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span
                            style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;
                            color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 11pt;">or
                            go see the nurse she needs to stick pins in
                            someone’s eyes I might have opted for the
                            nurse<o:p></o:p></span></div>
                        <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-family:
                          'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span
                            style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;
                            color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
                        <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-family:
                          'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span
                            style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;
                            color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 11pt;">Like
                            a lot of things the AE 600 was a good idea
                            with poor implementation<o:p></o:p></span></div>
                        <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-family:
                          'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span
                            style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;
                            color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 11pt;">It
                            used an 8080 micro (big step up from RCA’s
                            TEP is anyone remembers it  “Tape Editing
                            Programmer”)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
                        <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-family:
                          'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span
                            style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;
                            color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
                        <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-family:
                          'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span
                            style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;
                            color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 11pt;">Machines
                            had to be pulled into sync, but unlike
                            previous systems that used TSO to speed up
                            or slow down the capstan<o:p></o:p></span></div>
                        <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-family:
                          'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span
                            style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;
                            color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 11pt;">and
                            create major servo disturbances  <o:p></o:p></span></div>
                        <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-family:
                          'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span
                            style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;
                            color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
                        <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-family:
                          'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span
                            style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;
                            color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
                        <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-family:
                          'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span
                            style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;
                            color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 11pt;">The
                            AE 600 reprogrammed a counter chain in the
                            capstan servo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
                        <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-family:
                          'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span
                            style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;
                            color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 11pt;">This
                            was I think 4.3. 4 in pixlock  and either
                            4.4.4 or 3.4.3 to speed the tape up or slow
                            it down (cannot remember the original
                            numbers or what they were counting)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
                        <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-family:
                          'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span
                            style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;
                            color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 11pt;">So
                            the lock to station sync slipped one way or
                            the other without major servo disturbances,
                            and so station lock was a quick recovery
                            process after time pulling the time codes
                            into the correct sync<o:p></o:p></span></div>
                        <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-family:
                          'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span
                            style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;
                            color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
                        <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-family:
                          'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span
                            style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;
                            color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 11pt;">It
                            was a poor lockup system and frequently
                            failed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
                        <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-family:
                          'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span
                            style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;
                            color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
                        <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-family:
                          'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span
                            style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;
                            color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 11pt;">Worst
                            was the non standard logic to drive it, it
                            was complex with a mix needing the third
                            machine to stagger start<o:p></o:p></span></div>
                        <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-family:
                          'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span
                            style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;
                            color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 11pt;">Numerous
                            keystrokes and only an external event to
                            drive the mixer, so if the preview was OK
                            you had to remember to reset the mixer or it
                            would toggle the wrong way on the print<o:p></o:p></span></div>
                        <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-family:
                          'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span
                            style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;
                            color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
                        <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-family:
                          'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span
                            style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;
                            color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 11pt;">Add
                            to that a &frac14; tape deck (again external event
                            fired) to lift audio and mix it across the
                            edit which again needed re cueing after a
                            preview<o:p></o:p></span></div>
                        <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-family:
                          'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span
                            style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;
                            color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 11pt;">and
                            the  operating alone could make grown men
                            cry, before machine lock up problems.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
                        <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-family:
                          'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span
                            style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;
                            color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
                        <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-family:
                          'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span
                            style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;
                            color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 11pt;">Easy
                            to look at the director and ask is that what
                            you wanted, it was so long ago when you
                            explained I have forgotten<o:p></o:p></span></div>
                        <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-family:
                          'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span
                            style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;
                            color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 11pt;">and
                            if you did like the P/V can I repeat it, I
                            never smiled like the guys in the picture<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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                            style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;
                            color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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                            style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;
                            color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 11pt;">Trevor
                            B<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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                          'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span
                            style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;
                            color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 11pt;">UK
                            Member<o:p></o:p></span></div>
                        <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-family:
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                            style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;
                            color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
                        <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-family:
                          'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span
                            style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;
                            color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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                              font-size: 12pt;"><b><span
                                  style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;
                                  font-size: 10pt;">From:</span></b><span
                                style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;
                                font-size: 10pt;"><span
                                  class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
                                  moz-do-not-send="true" style="color:
                                  blue; text-decoration: underline;"
                                  title="mailto:quadlist-bounces@quadvideotapegroup.com"
href="mailto:quadlist-bounces@quadvideotapegroup.com">quadlist-bounces@quadvideotapegroup.com</a><span
                                  class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:quadlist-bounces@quadvideotapegroup.com">mailto:quadlist-bounces@quadvideotapegroup.com</a>]<span
                                  class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>On
                                  Behalf Of<span
                                    class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Ted
                                Langdell<br>
                                <b>Sent:</b><span
                                  class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>07
                                March 2011 15:54<br>
                                <b>To:</b><span
                                  class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Quad
                                List<br>
                                <b>Subject:</b><span
                                  class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re:
                                [QuadList] Question of the week-RCA AE
                                6000 editor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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                        <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-family:
                          'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></div>
                        <div>
                          <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-family:
                            'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Here's
                            a shot of what looks very much like a
                            version of the AE-6000 in an RCA trade show
                            booth:<o:p></o:p></div>
                        </div>
                        <div>
                          <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-family:
                            'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a
                              moz-do-not-send="true" style="color: blue;
                              text-decoration: underline;"
                              title="http://www.oldradio.com/archives/hardware/TV/rca-tr600.jpg"
href="http://www.oldradio.com/archives/hardware/TV/rca-tr600.jpg">http://www.oldradio.com/archives/hardware/TV/rca-tr600.jpg</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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                        <div>
                          <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-family:
                            'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></div>
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                        <div>
                          <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-family:
                            'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Perhaps
                            someone on the list remembers this
                            particular booth?<o:p></o:p></div>
                        </div>
                        <div>
                          <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-family:
                            'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></div>
                        </div>
                        <div>
                          <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-family:
                            'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Or
                            the people in that shot or this one:<o:p></o:p></div>
                        </div>
                        <div>
                          <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-family:
                            'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a
                              moz-do-not-send="true" style="color: blue;
                              text-decoration: underline;"
title="http://www.oldradio.com/archives/hardware/TV/rca-tr600(nab77).jpg"
href="http://www.oldradio.com/archives/hardware/TV/rca-tr600%28nab77%29.jpg">http://www.oldradio.com/archives/hardware/TV/rca-tr600(nab77).jpg</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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                        <div>
                          <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-family:
                            'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></div>
                        </div>
                        <div>
                          <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-family:
                            'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">The
                            guy in the blue suit and glasses could be
                            the person sitting in the director's chair
                            at the editor console.<o:p></o:p></div>
                        </div>
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                          <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-family:
                            'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></div>
                        </div>
                        <div>
                          <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-family:
                            'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ted<o:p></o:p></div>
                        </div>
                        <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-family:
                          'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></div>
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                            <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;
                              font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;
                              font-size: 12pt;">On Mar 7, 2011, at 7:36
                              AM, David Crosthwait wrote:<o:p></o:p></div>
                          </div>
                          <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-family:
                            'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br>
                            <br>
                            <o:p></o:p></div>
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                              <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;
                                font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;
                                font-size: 12pt;">The answer is the <o:p></o:p></div>
                            </div>
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                              <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;
                                font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;
                                font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></div>
                            </div>
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                              <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;
                                font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;
                                font-size: 12pt;"><span
                                  class="apple-style-span"><span
                                    style="font-size: 13.5pt;">RCA AE
                                    6000 "Automatic Computerized
                                    Editing"  </span></span><span
                                  class="apple-style-span"><span
                                    style="font-size: 9pt;">devise.</span></span><o:p></o:p></div>
                            </div>
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                              <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;
                                font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;
                                font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></div>
                            </div>
                            <div>
                              <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;
                                font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;
                                font-size: 12pt;"><span
                                  class="apple-style-span"><i><span
                                      style="color: rgb(254, 102, 129);
                                      font-size: 10.5pt;">"A new
                                      sophisticated editing system
                                      providing optimum simplicity and
                                      efficiency to enhance creative
                                      expression".<span
                                        class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i></span><span
                                  class="apple-style-span"><span
                                    style="font-size: 9pt;">(I've had
                                    some<span
                                      class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span
                                  class="apple-style-span"><i>"creative
                                    expressions"</i></span><span
                                  class="apple-style-span"><span
                                    style="font-size: 9pt;"><span
                                      class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>when
                                    editing with TR-600A's which cannot
                                    be printed here).</span></span><o:p></o:p></div>
                            </div>
                            <div>
                              <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;
                                font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;
                                font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></div>
                            </div>
                            <div>
                              <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;
                                font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;
                                font-size: 12pt;"><RCA AE 6000
                                bro1x.jpeg><RCA AE 6000
                                bro2x.jpeg><RCA AE 6000
                                bro3x.jpeg><RCA AE 6000
                                keyboard1.jpg><RCA AE 6000
                                screen1.jpg><RCA AE
                                6000x1.jpg><RCA AE 6000
                                bro4x.jpg><o:p></o:p></div>
                            </div>
                            <div>
                              <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;
                                font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;
                                font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></div>
                            </div>
                            <div>
                              <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;
                                font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;
                                font-size: 12pt;">I do not know if this
                                product ever came out, but certainly
                                from what I can tell by pulling
                                brochures from the DC Video file cabinet
                                is that I picked up this printed
                                material in 1978 or so and it appeared
                                to be a real product. But I never heard
                                of any implementation. Perhaps the heavy
                                weights here on the list i.e. Gary
                                Adams, John Turner, Don Norwood, Chris
                                Hill, Trevor Brown and others who were
                                associated with RCA gear (perhaps the
                                recipient of a sales pitch or two) could
                                elaborate. If 1978 is an accurate time
                                period for this product to be marketed,
                                then I think we have to keep in mind
                                what the competition was then i.e. Ampex
                                ACE, CMX 340, ISC, Mach 1, and perhaps
                                some others that I've failed to mention.
                                If one looks at the CRT display here,
                                it's a bit convoluted compared to the
                                industry standard at the time (in my
                                opinion), that being the CMX 340. So
                                perhaps the RCA AE 6000 was a little too
                                late to come to market. <o:p></o:p></div>
                            </div>
                            <div>
                              <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;
                                font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;
                                font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></div>
                            </div>
                            <div>
                              <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;
                                font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;
                                font-size: 12pt;">I once worked with a
                                woman who had just come from a religious
                                network editing facility who had four
                                TR-600A's tied to (I think) a CMX edit
                                system, and she swore by them. <o:p></o:p></div>
                            </div>
                            <div>
                              <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;
                                font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;
                                font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></div>
                            </div>
                            <div>
                              <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;
                                font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;
                                font-size: 12pt;">There were four 600As
                                tied to a CMX 340 (no AE-6000) in edit
                                five at NBC Burbank, and those machines
                                would move tape very fast, even dual
                                edit record under CMX control. However,
                                they were not very reliable in other
                                aspects. That edit room had been
                                originally projected to have four
                                AVR-3's, but an "upper level decision"
                                placed the 600A's in that project
                                instead. <o:p></o:p></div>
                            </div>
                            <div>
                              <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;
                                font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;
                                font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></div>
                            </div>
                            <div>
                              <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;
                                font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;
                                font-size: 12pt;">One last note: The
                                brochure mentions that this editor has a
                                "switcher control system designed to
                                interface with any 1600 series Grass
                                Valley E-MEM equipped switcher" (did not
                                scan that page yet but can if someone
                                wants to see it). I can't recall RCA
                                ever mentioning another major
                                manufacturer in a brochure, although I
                                could be dead wrong. Perhaps this was a
                                no brainer as RCA was (?) totally out of
                                the switcher business by then.<o:p></o:p></div>
                            </div>
                            <div>
                              <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;
                                font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;
                                font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></div>
                            </div>
                            <div>
                              <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;
                                font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;
                                font-size: 12pt;">David Crosthwait<o:p></o:p></div>
                            </div>
                            <div>
                              <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;
                                font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;
                                font-size: 12pt;">DC Video<o:p></o:p></div>
                            </div>
                            <div>
                              <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;
                                font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;
                                font-size: 12pt;"><a
                                  moz-do-not-send="true" style="color:
                                  blue; text-decoration: underline;"
                                  title="http://www.dcvideo.com/obsolete-video-formats/2-inch-quad.html"
href="http://www.dcvideo.com/obsolete-video-formats/2-inch-quad.html">2"
                                  quad transfers</a> and <a
                                  moz-do-not-send="true" style="color:
                                  blue; text-decoration: underline;"
title="http://www.dcvideo.com/obsolete-video-formats/2-inch-ampex-vr-660.html"
href="http://www.dcvideo.com/obsolete-video-formats/2-inch-ampex-vr-660.html">more...</a><o:p></o:p></div>
                            </div>
                            <div>
                              <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;
                                font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;
                                font-size: 12pt;"><a
                                  moz-do-not-send="true" style="color:
                                  blue; text-decoration: underline;"
                                  title="http://www.dcvideo.com/"
                                  href="http://www.dcvideo.com/">www.dcvideo.com</a><o:p></o:p></div>
                            </div>
                            <div>
                              <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;
                                font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;
                                font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></div>
                            </div>
                            <div>
                              <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;
                                font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;
                                font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></div>
                            </div>
                            <div>
                              <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;
                                font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;
                                font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></div>
                            </div>
                            <div>
                              <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;
                                font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;
                                font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></div>
                            </div>
                            <div>
                              <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;
                                font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;
                                font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></div>
                            </div>
                            <div>
                              <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;
                                font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;
                                font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></div>
                            </div>
                            <div>
                              <div>
                                <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;
                                  font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;
                                  font-size: 12pt;">Not seen this
                                  before, but I'd say it's an RCA
                                  multi-machine edit controller circa
                                  1983-86.  <o:p></o:p></div>
                              </div>
                              <div>
                                <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;
                                  font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;
                                  font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></div>
                              </div>
                              <div>
                                <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;
                                  font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;
                                  font-size: 12pt;">Perhaps a product
                                  that didn't make it into any
                                  facilities before the door was shut
                                  and Nipper's doghouse closed.<o:p></o:p></div>
                              </div>
                              <div>
                                <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;
                                  font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;
                                  font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></div>
                              </div>
                              <div>
                                <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;
                                  font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;
                                  font-size: 12pt;">Ted<o:p></o:p></div>
                              </div>
                              <div>
                                <div>
                                  <div>
                                    <div>
                                      <div>
                                        <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;
                                          font-family: 'Times New
                                          Roman',serif; font-size:
                                          12pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span
                                            style="font-family:
                                            Helvetica,sans-serif; color:
                                            black; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
                                      </div>
                                      <div>
                                        <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;
                                          font-family: 'Times New
                                          Roman',serif; font-size:
                                          12pt;"><span
                                            style="font-family:
                                            Helvetica,sans-serif; color:
                                            black; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
                                      </div>
                                      <div>
                                        <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;
                                          font-family: 'Times New
                                          Roman',serif; font-size:
                                          12pt;"><span
                                            class="apple-style-span"><span
                                              style="font-family:
                                              Helvetica,sans-serif;
                                              color: black; font-size:
                                              13.5pt;">Looks like a
                                              "super-duper" CMX type
                                              editing device for the
                                              TR-600 or above RCA quads.
                                              BIG floppy drives to hold
                                              edit info (reminds me of
                                              the 4100 Chyron's).
                                              Buttons and panels very
                                              similiar to the TR-600
                                              edit system at Olympic
                                              Broadcasting Studio in
                                              Chicago mid to late 70's.
                                              Machines had come from
                                              Montreal Olympics, no 2
                                              quite alike, what complete
                                              DOGS. Thankfully the truck
                                              had HS-100!</span></span><span
                                            style="font-family:
                                            Helvetica,sans-serif; color:
                                            black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br>
                                            <br>
                                            <span
                                              class="apple-style-span">Pat</span></span><span
                                            style="font-family:
                                            Helvetica,sans-serif; color:
                                            black; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
                                      </div>
                                      <div>
                                        <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;
                                          font-family: 'Times New
                                          Roman',serif; font-size:
                                          12pt;"><span
                                            style="font-family:
                                            Helvetica,sans-serif; color:
                                            black; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
                                      </div>
                                      <div>
                                        <div>
                                          <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm
                                            0pt; font-family: 'Times New
                                            Roman',serif; font-size:
                                            12pt;"><span
                                              style="font-family:
                                              Arial,sans-serif; color:
                                              black; font-size: 10pt;">Good
                                              stumper.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
                                        </div>
                                        <div>
                                          <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm
                                            0pt; font-family: 'Times New
                                            Roman',serif; font-size:
                                            12pt;"><span
                                              style="font-family:
                                              Arial,sans-serif; color:
                                              black; font-size: 10pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
                                        </div>
                                        <div>
                                          <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm
                                            0pt; font-family: 'Times New
                                            Roman',serif; font-size:
                                            12pt;"><span
                                              style="font-family:
                                              Arial,sans-serif; color:
                                              black; font-size: 10pt;">It
                                              looks like it was done by
                                              either CDL or Telemation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
                                        </div>
                                        <div>
                                          <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm
                                            0pt; font-family: 'Times New
                                            Roman',serif; font-size:
                                            12pt;"><span
                                              style="font-family:
                                              Arial,sans-serif; color:
                                              black; font-size: 10pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
                                        </div>
                                        <div>
                                          <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm
                                            0pt; font-family: 'Times New
                                            Roman',serif; font-size:
                                            12pt;"><span
                                              style="font-family:
                                              Arial,sans-serif; color:
                                              black; font-size: 10pt;">The
                                              5 inch disc drives give it
                                              a time frame of the 70's
                                              or early 80's.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
                                        </div>
                                        <div>
                                          <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm
                                            0pt; font-family: 'Times New
                                            Roman',serif; font-size:
                                            12pt;"><span
                                              style="font-family:
                                              Arial,sans-serif; color:
                                              black; font-size: 10pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
                                        </div>
                                        <div>
                                          <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm
                                            0pt; font-family: 'Times New
                                            Roman',serif; font-size:
                                            12pt;"><span
                                              style="font-family:
                                              Arial,sans-serif; color:
                                              black; font-size: 10pt;">It
                                              has to be after the
                                              original CMX as the unit
                                              has some features that
                                              were enhancements.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
                                        </div>
                                        <div>
                                          <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm
                                            0pt; font-family: 'Times New
                                            Roman',serif; font-size:
                                            12pt;"><span
                                              style="font-family:
                                              Arial,sans-serif; color:
                                              black; font-size: 10pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
                                        </div>
                                        <div>
                                          <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm
                                            0pt; font-family: 'Times New
                                            Roman',serif; font-size:
                                            12pt;"><span
                                              style="font-family:
                                              Arial,sans-serif; color:
                                              black; font-size: 10pt;">Have
                                              no idea other than that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
                                        </div>
                                        <div>
                                          <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm
                                            0pt; font-family: 'Times New
                                            Roman',serif; font-size:
                                            12pt;"><span
                                              style="font-family:
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                                  font-size: 12pt;">On Mar 4, 2011, at
                                  9:33 AM, Trevor Brown wrote:<o:p></o:p></div>
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                                <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;
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                                  AE600 edit panel<span
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                                  You can clearly see the gold key as in
                                  66 gold key 6 (Change Pal Phase)<br>
                                  There should be a Blue key too (edit
                                  replay)<br>
                                  Picture is a little burnt out to
                                  identify<br>
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                                  Don't remember the 5 1/4 discs or the
                                  comments key board<span
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                                  TrevorB<br>
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                                  On Behalf Of David<br>
                                  Crosthwait<br>
                                  Sent: 04 March 2011 15:59<br>
                                  To: Quad List<br>
                                  Subject: Re: [QuadList] Question of
                                  the week<br>
                                  <br>
                                  Here is a photo from the file cabinet.<br>
                                  The questions for the contest are:<br>
                                  What is it?<br>
                                  What is the model number?<br>
                                  Did anyone ever see one in action
                                  other than on the showroom floor?<span
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                                  Was it a product that was "Dead On
                                  Arrival"?<br>
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                                  Other documentation will be posted
                                  about what this is (or was supposed to<br>
                                  be) once the questions have been
                                  answered.<span
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