<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>On Nov 16, 2012, at 8:58 AM, <a href="mailto:Chill315@aol.com">Chill315@aol.com</a> wrote:</div><div><br></div><div>> Dennis</div><div>> Thank you for sharing the photos.</div><div>> Did RCA provide the TR-70's that are 23 and 24 with out the monitor bridge or did the NBC guys cut off the top part?</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I reply:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Hmm, I don't really know. They were probably installed in the late 1960's or early 1970's. I worked there in the VT shop in 1978. The machines had already been there for many years.</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>If I had to guess, I'd say that the machines arrived with their monitor bridges attached. NBC did a lot of their own engineering and they probably modified the machines and did the installation.</div><div><br></div></div><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-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: 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-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-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: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Dennis Degan, Video Editor-Consultant-Knowledge Bank</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> NBC Today Show, New York</div><br></div></div></span></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></body></html>