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<DIV>Park:</DIV>
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<DIV>Not to preempt Bill, but yes, it was slightly before the days of Bill
Hendershot and his CVS digital TBC, but there was market overlap during the
product lifespan. CVS was first, so NEC would have followed sometime
later. The Microtime box was an all analog signal path using switched
delay lines with some digital control and timing circuitry. It's advantage
originally was its "large" correction window.</DIV>
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<DIV>Don Norwood<BR>Digitrak Communications, Inc.<BR><A
href="http://www.digitrakcom.com">www.digitrakcom.com</A></DIV>
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<A title=park@videopark.com href="mailto:park@videopark.com">C. Park
Seward</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, May 06, 2011 11:33 AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [QuadList] TBC</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Hi Bill,
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>I assume this Andersen project was before CVS sold the standalone TBC?
And before NEC had TBCs?</DIV>
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<DIV>Charlie Steinberg is great. Quite a blow to Ampex when, after 25 years,
went to Sony as President of their Broadcast Division. I don't know the back
story of why he left but he sure did well at Sony and I'm sure took a lot of
business away from Ampex.<BR>
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<DIV><BR class=Apple-interchange-newline>Best,</DIV>
<DIV>Park</DIV>
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<DIV>C. Park Seward</DIV>
<DIV>Cell: 818-535-2747</DIV>
<DIV>Home: 541-476-6657</DIV>
<DIV>2" Quad and 1" "C" transfers</DIV>
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<DIV>On May 6, 2011, at 7:26 AM, Bill Carpenter wrote:</DIV><BR
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<TD vAlign=top>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><<A
href="mailto:dwnorwood@embarqmail.com">dwnorwood@embarqmail.com</A>></I></B>
wrote:<BR>
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Don Norwood <<A
href="mailto:dwnorwood@embarqmail.com">dwnorwood@embarqmail.com</A>><BR>Subject:
Re: [QuadList] TBC<BR>To: "Quad List" <<A
href="mailto:quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com">quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com</A>><BR>Date:
Friday, May 6, 2011, 6:49 AM<BR><BR>
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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>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Don Norwood<BR>Digitrak Communications, Inc.<BR><A
href="http://www.digitrakcom.com/" rel=nofollow
target=_blank>www.digitrakcom.com</A></DIV>
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<A title=scottgfx@mac.com
href="x-msg://34/mc/compose?to=scottgfx@mac.com" rel=nofollow
target=_blank ymailto="mailto:scottgfx@mac.com">Scott Thomas</A>
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title=quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com
href="x-msg://34/mc/compose?to=quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com"
rel=nofollow target=_blank
ymailto="mailto:quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com">Quad List</A>
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<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
href="http://www.dantiques2.com/vpasp/shopexd.asp?ccode=26768"
rel=nofollow
target=_blank>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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<DIV>On May 2, 2011, at 3:27 PM, Bill Carpenter wrote:</DIV><BR
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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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