<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Hi, Bob,</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for alerting the group to a great resource! </div><div><br></div><div><b>Quad Articles:</b></div><div>I randomly picked Volume 99, Feb. 58 to see whether it had any Quad articles, and it does!</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-RCA-Broadcast-News/RCA_Broadcast_News_99-02-1958.pdf">http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-RCA-Broadcast-News/RCA_Broadcast_News_99-02-1958.pdf</a></div><div><br></div><div>Page 6-7 outline the RCA Color Videotape Mod/Demod system in an article, "Color Processing in the RCA Video Tape Recorder" by A. H. Lind, Manager, Audio and Mechanical Devices Engineering.</div><div><br></div><div>Pages 84-85 are a "double truck spread" for the RCA Quad VTR.</div><div><br></div><div>The April, 1958 issue follows up.</div><div><a href="http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-RCA-Broadcast-News/RCA_Broadcast_News_100-04-1958.pdf">http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-RCA-Broadcast-News/RCA_Broadcast_News_100-04-1958.pdf</a></div><div><br></div><div>The index reports Pages 6 has an article on How the RCA video recorder works. Page 6 is out of sequence in this scan, appearing as Page 10 in the file. The text for the article by Jerome L. Grever begins on Page 7 and runs through Page 15. Pictures are nice and clear!</div><div><br></div><div>The March, 1960 issue</div><div><a href="http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-RCA-Broadcast-News/RCA_Broadcast_News_107-03-1960.pdf">http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-RCA-Broadcast-News/RCA_Broadcast_News_107-03-1960.pdf</a></div><div><br></div><div>has a number of Quad related articles, including </div><div>Page 14: Tour through the TV Tape Headwheel Plant</div><div>Page 19:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>TV Tape Splicer</div><div>Page 22:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>How design of tape transport mechanism improves performance of TV Tape recorder</div><div><br></div><div>And for you camera fans, the announcement of the TK-12 IO camera, predecessor to the TK-60.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b>Can we develop an Index of Quad Articles?</b></div><div>As people read through the issues, it would be great if folks posted links to the editions with Quad related articles and an index.</div><div><br></div><div>The format above can be a template.</div><div><br></div><div>At some point, I'll take them all and post one big chronological list.</div><div><br></div><div>David Gleason has made the <a href="http://www.americanradiohistory.com/"><b>Broadcasting Yearbooks</b></a> searchable by word, which is how I discovered them... doing a Google search for something. It would be great if that happened with these.</div><div><br></div><div>Helping to develop an index of Quad articles will be a good interim.</div><div><br></div><div>Lots of late night reading ahead!</div><div><br></div><div>Ted</div><div><br></div><div><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</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); "></font></div></div></div></div><br><div><div>On Jul 11, 2011, at 5:04 PM, Bob GMAIL Bell wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>I've noticed interest in old issues of RCA Broadcast News on the Quadvideotapegroup list. David Gleason's broadcasting history site (which is already home to most of the "Broadcasting Yearbooks") has now added Fred Morton's collection of RCA Broadcast News for free viewing. So far, there are 38 of them scanned in high resolution with articles about station construction, towers, antennae, studios and individual stations. The pictures are astounding and the technical information about the development of TV, FM stereo and solid state is fascinating to read, 30, 40 and 50 years later. Check them out at <a href="http://www.americanradiohistory.com/RCA-Broadcast-News-Page-Range-Guide.htm">http://www.americanradiohistory.com/RCA-Broadcast-News-Page-Range-Guide.htm</a><br><br>David owns sophisticated (and expensive) hardware dedicated to the scanning of old broadcasting publications without harming the original documents. He might be encouraged to expand his collection of RCA Broadcast News issues if he was loaned additional copies.<br><br>Bob Bell<br>Quadvideotapegroup List Lurker<br><a href="http://mail.quadvideotapegroup.com/mailman/listinfo/quadlist_quadvideotapegroup.com">http://mail.quadvideotapegroup.com/mailman/listinfo/quadlist_quadvideotapegroup.com</a></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>