<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Hi, Bill,</div><div><br></div><div>You'd likely have some knowledge of what the Quad sales competition was like in Japan.</div><div><br></div><div>What companies made Quads in Japan?</div><div><br></div><div>Shibaden did... as evidenced by the SV-7000 machines that John Streets / Al Sturm / Ken Zin, et al at Merlin turned into ME-68s as part of a dubbing system for Vidtronics when computer editor designer Jack Calaway was CE there.</div><div><a href="http://www.labguysworld.com/Merlin_ME68.htm">http://www.labguysworld.com/Merlin_ME68.htm</a></div><div><br></div><div>Sony made a prototype in the late 50's spurred by the VR-1000.</div><div><a href="http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/CorporateInfo/History/capsule/09/index.html">http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/CorporateInfo/History/capsule/09/index.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>What can you tell us?</div><div><br></div><div>Ted</div><br><div><div>On Sep 27, 2012, at 5:27 AM, Bill Carpenter wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">Yes, it was built by Toshiba, and is a good machine.<br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span>I believe we were still in our joint marketing agreement with Toshiba and we owned 49% of the Japanese company known as Toamco, which allowed us to sell equipment into Japan ( mainly quads).<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div></blockquote></div><br><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; "><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-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 style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><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-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 style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><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-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><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">Ted Langdell</span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Secretary</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Skype: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>TedLangdell</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">e-mail:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><a href="mailto:ted@quadvideotapegroup.com">ted@quadvideotapegroup.com</a></span></font></div></span></div></span></div></span></span>
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