<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Nov 10, 2011, at 5:19 AM, Ted Langdell wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; 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: 0px; "><div>Do we have any Marines on the list?</div><div><br></div><div>Did any of you earn your "Quad Fingers" in the Corps? (I'm assuming that there were Marine Quad VTR's in service somewhere on land or sea.)</div></span></blockquote></div><br><div><br></div><div>Seems there was at least one USMC remote truck in use in 1972... as cited in the Nov. 1, 1972 SMPTE Journal.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://journal.smpte.org/content/81/11.toc">http://journal.smpte.org/content/81/11.toc</a></div><div><br></div><div>That issue had a lot about remote trucks, including the WMAQ-TV and NBC units that Dennis Degan linked to his pictures after David Crosthwait described working the "Freezer Bowl".</div><div><br></div><div>Meant to thank David at the time for his reply to my questions and pictures. Have been swamped.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;">David, we'll miss you in Austin. Was figuring you'd know good places to eat!</blockquote><div><br></div><div>
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