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<DIV>I never had the chance to go to a training class for quads. I found
that I could keep them going with the best of them. We were a
production house and I got to the point where I could trouble shoot them with
ease. Part of the way that I kept them going was to keep an eye on the
lock up times. Any time a VR-1200 was over 4 seconds it was time to go
through it. We felt that 3.5 was the norm for us. Also we did a 25
head hour check. We felt that we should be able to record on any machine
and play it back on any other machine with minimal adjustment. We
optimized so that the playback of an alignment tape and a recording were almost
identical.</DIV>
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<DIV>The machines we had were very well taken care of. It showed in the
quality of the output. </DIV>
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<DIV>Did people find the class that good? I have a training manual and
notice that it basically went through each system and explained it. The
books from Ampex were very good and I was able to get that information from
them. I did see that there were some notes that were handed out in the
class. Some of these applied to different versions. Like the
Intersync notes are not that good for the last version. One can not use
them for the last version and do the alignment correctly. </DIV>
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<DIV>So how much did you glean from the class and how much from working on the
machines?</DIV>
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<DIV>Chris Hill</DIV>
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