<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14pt"><div><span>Hi Folks,</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;">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). <br></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>They would have also built the Instavideo product for us, if it ever was
marketed.</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 have used this </span>machine many times, we had a loaner in our dept, just for occasional uses.<br></div><div>Bye for now, love to all, Bill Carpenter<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> Scott Thomas <scottgfx@mac.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> "tim@lionlamb.us" <tim@lionlamb.us>; Quad List <quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, September 27, 2012 1:14 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [QuadList]
Ampex VR 420 1/2" VTR/Editor **Vintage/Collectible**<br> </font> </div> <br>
<br><img src="cid:1.841160836@web161603.mail.bf1.yahoo.com"><br><br>I'm not sure if the image will come through, but the label appears to say "Toshiba Ampex".<br><br>I did want to express my dislike of those 8-pin monitor connectors though. Didn't realize they went back that far.<br><br><br>On Sep 27, 2012, at 1:34 AM, Tim Stoffel <<a ymailto="mailto:tim@lionlamb.us" href="mailto:tim@lionlamb.us">tim@lionlamb.us</a>> wrote:<br><br>> <br>> Someone here should grab this machine (I can't now. 24 hours ago, I<br>> could have :-( ). It is a real collectible. Essentially an EIAJ machine<br>> with stereo audio. Looks to me like it was made by Panasonic for Ampex.<br>> <br>> Tim Stoffel<br>> <br>> --<br>> <br>> <br>> On Wed, 2012-09-26 at 15:48 -0400, <a ymailto="mailto:chill315@aol.com" href="mailto:chill315@aol.com">chill315@aol.com</a> wrote:<br>>> <br>>> I never saw anything like this from Ampex.
Does anyone have<br>>> information on this unit?<br>>> <br>>> <br>>> Chris Hill<br>>> <br>>> <br><br>______________________________________________<br>Please trim posts to relevant info when replying.<br><br>Change subject to reflect thread direction. Thanks.<br>_______________________________________________<br><br>Send QuadList list posts to <a ymailto="mailto:QuadList@quadvideotapegroup.com" href="mailto:QuadList@quadvideotapegroup.com">QuadList@quadvideotapegroup.com</a><br>Your subscribe, unsubscribe and digest options are here:<br><a href="http://mail.quadvideotapegroup.com/mailman/listinfo/quadlist_quadvideotapegroup.com" target="_blank">http://mail.quadvideotapegroup.com/mailman/listinfo/quadlist_quadvideotapegroup.com</a><br><br> </div> </div> </div></body></html>