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<DIV>Hi Dave:</DIV>
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<DIV>In the useless trivia department, Ampex used this style switch on the
instrumentation recorders before they used it on the video decks. The
VR-1100 was the first quad transport to use them but the first video machine to
use them was the VR-8000 2" helical. However, they had already been in use
on instrumentation decks. Here's a picture of a transport control for
an FR-600 that I had and it predates the video decks.
There seemed to be a lot of technology and design sharing within the
company, but many video folks don't know much about other Ampex products.
A similar situation existed at RCA, and both companies had government contracts
for specialized products that were often far more sophisticated than what we saw
in the television business.</DIV>
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<DIV>Don Norwood<BR>Digitrak Communications, Inc.<BR><A
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<DIV>You are very close on the push-buttons, they were from a remote panel for
a FR-80</DIV>
<DIV>instrumentation recorder, but are essentially the same ones they put on
the VR-1200</DIV>
<DIV>and 2000. Except "Play" became "Reproduce" for the NASA
crowd.</DIV>
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