<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14pt"><div><span>Hi Don,</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>Could that be the VR-1000 Console @ Compact in the early days where Joe Sayovitch would check the VR- 3000's by recording and not threading the tape on to the take-up reel but routed it to the Video head on the VR-1000 for simultaneous playback in a write/ read configuration. <br></span></div><div><span>This was like the Canadians using the "bin loop storage" ( a big plastic G can between two machines) to add commercials to hockey games.</span></div><div><span>The timing would have been late 72 or early 73, pre-AVR-2, when I was product manager for the VR-3000.</span></div><div><span>On this trip, Joe also showed me the VR-3000 with the servo circuit mod's so it could be used to play video on a film set, to not cause bars on the monitors due to the films 24frame
 rate.</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>I never saw to system running, but he showed me a picture with the VR-3000 on the special welded shelf to the right front of the VR-1000 console. <br></span></div><div><span>His VR-3000's always ran right on-location.</span></div><div> </div><div>Bye for now, Bill & Gewyn & Ginger (whoof...whoof)<br></div>  <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1">  <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> David Crosthwait <david@dcvideo.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Quad List <quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, April 14, 2012 9:20 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [QuadList]
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<div id="yiv1094631769"><div>Hello Chris,<div><br></div><div>Well actually you are correct! This particular machine was a combination of sorts of an A, B, and C model. And yes, the Smith Splicer is there too. </div><div><br></div><div>I'll post the second part of the answer shortly. As for a hint, the location was not NBC, CBS or ABC. <br><div>
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<br><div><div>On Apr 13, 2012, at 6:56 PM, <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:Chill315@aol.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:Chill315@aol.com">Chill315@aol.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="yiv1094631769Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div>Well we know it is a VR-1000 with a Smith splicer.  Is it a model A, B, or C?  And I have no idea where it is located.<br><br>Chris Hill</div><div><br>On Apr 13, 2012, at 9:33 PM, David Crosthwait <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:david@dcvideo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:david@dcvideo.com">david@dcvideo.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div><span class="yiv1094631769Apple-style-span"
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<br><div><div>What is it? Where is it?</div><div><br></div><div><Mystery1.jpeg></div><div><br></div><div>Good luck in the contest!</div><div><div><span class="yiv1094631769Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;font-family:Helvetica;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;font-size:medium;"><span class="yiv1094631769Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;font-variant:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;"><span class="yiv1094631769Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;font-variant:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><div
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