<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Hi Scott & Don,<br><br>Yes you are correct, the glass delay lines used in the AVR-1,<span>ACR</span>-25, and the TBC 790 were Anderson Labs products. <br><br>The president came to me in Elk Grove, and wanted to sell us a simple TBC, which they had in a very rough form.<br><br>They had shopped it around and nobody would buy it.<br><br>We had a short term need & I signed the development contract.<br><br>They knew there delay lines, but did not know how to handle video properly and sync handling was very poor. We tested it after we had moved to California in mid 71, and it did not work with the 7900.<br><br>They went away, redesigned with some new engineers, brought the product to market and then sued Ampex for breach of contract, because we had deep pockets.<br><br>I gave a couple days of depositions, and then one day I met our President, Charlie
Stienberg in the hall, and we decided on a $ figure of a "go away" payment to end the litigation. They accepted, and went away as victorious for less than the price of a single TBC.<br><br>I learned a lot about contracts from that exercise.<br><br>Bye for now, <span>lBill</span> & Gewyn & Ginger (whoof...whoof)<br><br>--- On <b>Fri, 5/6/11, Don Norwood <i><dwnorwood@embarqmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Don Norwood <dwnorwood@embarqmail.com><br>Subject: Re: [QuadList] TBC<br>To: "Quad List" <quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com><br>Date: Friday, May 6, 2011, 6:49 AM<br><br><div id="yiv255891143">
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<div>Hi Scott:</div>
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<div>Yes, that looks like the manual I have. A very fair price if someone
needs one. Copying or scanning this would be a considerable task as many
of the pages are 11x17 foldouts.</div>
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<div>My impression of the company during the time that these were made was
that Microtime was a company created to utilize some of the technology that the
parent company, Andersen Laboratories, manufactured. I believe Andersen
made the delay lines that were used in the TBC's. Perhaps Bill can
shed some additional light on this.</div>
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<div>Don Norwood<br>Digitrak Communications, Inc.<br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.digitrakcom.com">www.digitrakcom.com</a></div>
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<a rel="nofollow" title="scottgfx@mac.com" ymailto="mailto:scottgfx@mac.com" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=scottgfx@mac.com">Scott Thomas</a>
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<div style="font: 10pt arial;"><b>To:</b> <a rel="nofollow" title="quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com" ymailto="mailto:quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com">Quad List</a> </div>
<div style="font: 10pt arial;"><b>Sent:</b> Friday, May 06, 2011 3:37 AM</div>
<div style="font: 10pt arial;"><b>Subject:</b> Re: [QuadList] TBC</div>
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<div>I found a manual for sale online...</div>
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<div><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.dantiques2.com/vpasp/shopexd.asp?ccode=26768">http://www.dantiques2.com/vpasp/shopexd.asp?ccode=26768</a></div>
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<div>Fascinating story. I started tracing the company and it appears that
whatever was left was sold to Avid. (Along with Pinnacle, DF/X, Dubner)</div>
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<td valign="top">Hi Don & Everyone,<br><br>I spec'ed that unit in
early 71, and entered into a contract with Andersen to build it,
on which they delivered a prototype in late 71, may be Nov, and then
the fun started. It did not work, got rejected, contract into default,
litigation began, gave depsitions, recommended how much for our
president to pay them to " Go Away", end of Andersen File.<br><br>I
had the "mini-buffer" TBC-790 available, before the Legal case was
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