<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:bookman old style, new york, times, serif;font-size:24pt"><div><span>Hi Don & everyone,</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 32px; font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 32px; font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>All I can remember was that the HS-100's were Secam units, and they were shipped to the required holding area in Moscow. I believe there were more than 10 units, and we were concerned about what we would do with them, after the Olympics were over.<br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 32px; font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 32px; font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>We had a group of about 6 field engineers who worked the previous year in Moscow, for some Russian Sporting event which was a sorta week long Olympic practice. Our folks got there a week early for setup.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 32px; font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 32px; font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>When they were paid in a "Local Script" which was worthless outside of Moscow, they asked the engineering manager if he could arrange storage for a big refrigerator. When he agreed, he took them somewhere and they bought the biggest & best refrigerator
and had it moved to the engineering shop and filled it with Danish Tuborg Beer.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 32px; font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>When these trial games were over the manager arranged to have the refrigerator stored for a year at his house/apartment.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 32px; font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 32px; font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>When president Carter cancelled the USA involvement, the six guys wonder what happened to their great refrigerator?</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 32px; font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif;
background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 32px; font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Ampex carried Insurance against conditions like this, so we didn't care what happened to re-shipped equipment.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 32px; font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 32px; font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Those were the last HS-100's built to the best of my knowledge.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 32px; font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 32px; font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>My first close up experience was with a NTSC HS-200 production system which was demonstrated at the 1968 IBC show in London. <br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 32px; font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>I also meet the voice of Ampex, Bob Day at that show, which was great for a design engineer from the Elk Grove Village, Illinois group.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 32px; font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 32px; font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>This was my
first International Trade Show, and we had a VR-7500C and a VR-7800, both running in NTSC, also using the same 60hz motor/alternator power system. <br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 32px; font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>We came back from a late lunch and we had "hum bars" rolling thru everything that was connected to the NTSC system. We traced every inch of wire, made sure there were no grounds added? We started to turn off equipment and removing cables to try to find the problem. <br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 32px; font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>The Chief Engineer from the local Ampex Facility in Reading came out of the backroom smiling and we looked at the monitors and the hum was gone!</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-size: 32px; font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>We asked him what he had done, and then we all threatened to leave, when he would say anything!</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 32px; font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Finally when some of the Brit's ganged up on him, and he said he looked at the motor/alternator system, and saw that the drive belts were bouncing, so he tightened the belt tensioning device a half a turn until the drive belts smoothed out. That slippage was the cause of our "hum bars"<br></span></div><div><span></span></div><div>Bye for now, Bill Carpenter & Ginger (whoof...whoof)<br></div> <div style="font-family: bookman old style, new york, times, serif; font-size: 24pt;"> <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> Don Norwood <dwnorwood@embarqmail.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> Wednesday, November 7, 2012 9:37 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [QuadList] HS-100 disc<br> </font> </div> <br><br><br><div id="yiv32344476">
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<div>Hi Bill:</div>
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<div>I assume that the 1980 production was the HS-100C with the DTBC.
Any idea how many of the "C" units were built? I've never seen one of
those in person.</div>
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<div>For anyone not familiar, literature on various models is on our
website here: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.digitrakcom.com/page8.html">http://www.digitrakcom.com/page8.html</a></div>
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<div>Don Norwood<br>Digitrak Communications, Inc.<br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.digitrakcom.com/">www.digitrakcom.com</a></div>
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<div style="FONT:10pt arial;"><span>Maybe you should question the group as to
how many worked on these between 1968 and 1980. <br>The last production was in
1980. ( we built a group of them for the 1980 Moscow Olympics, which were paid
for by the Insurance, when we did not attend, and I doubt if they were ever
turned on) <br></span></div>
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