<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Every year, folks who used to work at Ampex--some retired... some who moved on to other companies--gather at Cuesta Park in Mountain View.<div><br></div><div>QuadList member Tim Stoffel had been attending for a number of years. I went last year and posted pix on the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150093586508166.282997.107154828165&type=1">Quad Videotape Group Facebook </a>page</div><div><br></div><div>This year, Tim and I (standing) went, and met up with Old VTR collector and historian Richard Diehl (red shirt, seated), who was interviewing several people on HD video.</div><div><img height="240" width="266" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:3910547F-9904-432B-90CF-ADBE5A081F57"></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">(Tim Stoffel photo)</span></div><div><br></div><div>Click here <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/videolabguy#p/">http://www.youtube.com/user/videolabguy#p/</a>u </div><div>for Richard's YouTube page to see interviews with the original Quad Head engineer and picnic organizer Fred Pfost (seen here with wife/co-organizer, Joann Pfost)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><img height="240" width="283" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:B33FF0D3-7CFB-4B54-BFCB-8D5BED0D5486"></div><div style="font-size: 10px; ">(Tim Stoffel photo)</div><div><br></div><div> and engineer Ray Vavizza.</div><div><img height="220" width="292" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:DD4D4084-E65C-4230-8129-5E4499F8D9F5"></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">(Ted Langdell iPhone photo)</span></div><div><br></div><div>Ravizza had a hand in the developing servo systems for Ampex's Electron Beam Recorder for instrumentation (spy plane data, among otherthings), the audio section on the AVR-2 and 3, and mechanical aspects of Automatic Scan Tracking (AST) for the original Type A machines (Ampex VPR-1) and then later the VPR-2 and VPR-3 series. </div><div><br></div><div>He later worked on robotics for the Ampex ACR-225 digital spot and program R/P system. He's still working... in robotics mechanisms for a Bay Area company.</div><div><br></div><div>Retired Ampexer Bill Carpenter (AVR-2 & AVR-3 sales among other things) </div><div>and Tim Stoffel get caught up, while an AVR-2 audio board rests on Bill's food bag.</div><div><br></div><div><img height="240" width="301" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:5C4304AC-E1D7-4130-8782-50AF31ADDD19"></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">(Ted Langdell photo/Tim's Canon camera)</span></div><div><br></div><div>We stayed until long after others had left, and then stopped into </div><div>the Milpitas FRY's Electronics for a trip around half the store.</div><div><br></div><div>No big spending, though. Tim bought something small for his GPS, and I grabbed an ice coffee for the 2.5 hour drive home to Marysville, about 40 minutes north of Sacramento. Tim had another two hours-over the Sierras in the dark to Reno- with a wave at Grass Valley and Nevada City folks on the way through.</div><div><br></div><div>Ted</div><div><br></div><div><div apple-content-edited="true"> <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></body></html>