<html><head></head><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 Mar 20, 2013, at 4:20 PM, David Crosthwait wrote:</div><div><br></div><div>> The photo I posed today was from NBC N.Y. supplied by a former editor who worked there at that time, now out here. Judging by the dreaded 3M foam flange, I would guess that shot was sometime between 1972 and 1976. I will defer all deciphering of the machine and edit bay layouts to Dennis and the other editors who used to work there as I never set foot into 30 Rock. </div></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I offer:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Actually David, I noticed one thing that leads me to believe that the photo was taken in 1979. There is a custom-built machine assignment panel visible in the over bridge console of the left VTR. If you look closely, you'll notice that it has two adjacent knobs on it mounted on a white background. Those panels were modified, starting in 1978. I personally did many of the modifications to them. After I left NBC in Jan. 1979, new panels were made with the mods already installed. The assignment panel in that photo is one of the later ones.</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The original assignment panel had only ONE knob on it; the right hand one. The function provided by the left knob (the 'PL Selector') was originally handled by a pushbutton matrix, which can be seen here:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dennisdegan/3403165017/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/dennisdegan/3403165017/</a>></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The pushbutton matrix was quite prone to hanging up and was very unreliable. So it was replaced with the rotating switch similar to the one already on the panel.</div><br><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 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; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Dennis Degan, Video Editor-Consultant-Knowledge Bank<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>NBC Today Show, New York<br><br></span>
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