<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Hi, Shai,</div><div><br></div><div>Welcome to the QuadList. You'll find some familiar names from the AMIA-List here... me among them.</div><br><div><div>On Apr 26, 2011, at 11:31 AM, Shai Drori wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi Everyone<br>I am looking for a Quad machine that can do PAL (NTSC would be nice as well). All links I have show nothing but a dear friend suggested I look here. Must be operational or complete so that restoration is possible. Please ping off list.<br>Shai Drori<br></div></blockquote><br></div><div>Can you be specific about what's in your collection? Quantity, length, age(s) of tapes.</div><div><br></div><div>Are you planning to operate the machine yourself?</div><div><br></div><div>That kind of information is helpful for folks who might make suggestions about machines, practices, gotchas to look out for.</div><div><br></div><div>If you don't need to handle any low band monochrome or color, a PAL Ampex AVR-2 would be a good choice, if one or more can be found.</div><div><br></div><div>I may be able to help there, and some other folks on the list may have suggestions.</div><div><br></div><div>If you do want to go with an AVR-2, I'm representing a new board-set/modification package that enables the AVR-2 to handle high-band color and monochrome as the factory machines did... but also low-band color and monochrome by flipping several switches on the cards.</div><div><br></div><div>You can learn a lot from the QuadList archives by clicking here:</div><div><a href="http://mail.quadvideotapegroup.com/pipermail/quadlist_quadvideotapegroup.com/">http://mail.quadvideotapegroup.com/pipermail/quadlist_quadvideotapegroup.com/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Hope this is helpful.</div><div><br></div><div>Ted</div><div><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true"> <div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; font-size: 14px; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Ted Langdell</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Secretary for the <a href="http://www.quadvideotapegroup.com/"><font color="#0018ea" style="color: rgb(0, 24, 234); "><u>QuadVideotapeGroup.com</u></font></a></font><font face="Helvetica" size="2" style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Helvetica; ">: </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Preserving Tape, Equipment and the Knowledge to use them, in conjunction with the Library of Congress</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#0018ea" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 24, 234); "><a href="mailto:ted@quadvideotapegroup.com"><u>ted@quadvideotapegroup.com</u></a></font></div></div></div> </div><br></body></html>