<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Don,</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for posting this. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">This should be a good series! Looking forward to more.</span></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">All the museums mentioned have websites:</span></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Museum of Radio and Television:</span></font><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> </span></font></span><a href="http://www.ohio.edu/people/postr/MRT/"><span style="text-decoration: underline ; letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">http://www.ohio.edu/people/postr/MRT/</span></font></span></a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Early Television Foundation:</span></font><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span></font></span><a href="http://www.earlytelevision.org"><span style="text-decoration: underline ; letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #000099"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">http://www.earlytelevision.org</span></font></span></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">/</span></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Museum of Broadcast Technology</span></font><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span></font></span><a href="http://www.wmbt.org"><span style="text-decoration: underline ; letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #000099"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">http://www.wmbt.org</span></font></span></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">/</span></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">You can watch an HD video of some of the inside of the Museum of Broadcast Technology here:</span></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); "><span style="text-decoration: underline ; letter-spacing: 0.0px"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/videolabguy#p/u/11/q6FPOjCCCs0"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">http://www.youtube.com/user/videolabguy#p/u/11/q6FPOjCCCs0</span></font></a></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">You'll see quite a range of cameras and call letters.</span></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">The video was shot on an trip to the Early Television Foundation and the annual Early TV gathering by Virtual Museum proprietor Richard Diehl, aka "Labguy" who has a large collection of non-broadcast VTRs...</span></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); "><span style="text-decoration: underline ; letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.labguysworld.com">http://www.labguysworld.com</a></span></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; "><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; ">Rich has owned 1" Type C (watch the VPR-5 video) an AVR-2 and retrieved an IVC 9000 from a closed post house. Look for the story under "IVC"</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; "><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">MBT's Paul Beck gave Rich and fellow collector Bruno Merlier a tour of his church's video facility. Paul switches and camera-operates a six-camera setup all by himself.</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eA4HToAb3Jk">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eA4HToAb3Jk</a></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; "><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; ">Rich also shot video of QuadList Member John Turner's RCA TR-60 Quad VTR in operation at Turner's engineering firm in New Jersey.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); "><span style="text-decoration: underline ; letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/videolabguy#p/u/11/q6FPOjCCCs0">http://www.youtube.com/user/videolabguy#p/u/11/q6FPOjCCCs0</a></span></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">At 5:44 in, Turner says if the TR-60 is finessed, "it's as good as any Quad ever made. Even AVR-1's, although David Crosthwait will argue with me!"</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">John outlines some technical and historic historical background on the design of the machines.</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Turner says the servos were designed by Ken Louth, who went on to found Louth Automation, now a part of Harris Corp.</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">You'll find more interesting videos on Rich's YouTube site. Well worth poking around.</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">The videos look quite sharp in 720p. Recommended if you have the bandwidth!</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Nice shooting, Rich. Thanks for putting those up!</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Ted</span></font></span></div></div><div><br></div><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><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></span> </div><br></body></html>