<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Hey, Randy, </div><div><br></div>Happy to help! Enjoyed the reading... and am looking forward to the next items you scan : )<div><br></div><div><div>Breaking things like this up into parts is helpful.</div></div><div><br></div><div>Anything under 1MB sails through without getting held up for a review. That's so the list doesn't pass items that could cause problems for some people's mailboxes.</div><div><br></div><div><div>Anyone with Ampex "Readout" or other Ampex publications is welcome to post or send PDFs for posting on <a href="http://quadvideotapegroup.com">quadvideotapegroup.com</a> website.</div></div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div><div><br></div></div><div><div>My googling for "Ampex Readout" turned up a<a href="http://www.moonviews.com/2011/05/fr-900-tape-drives-and-lunar-orbiter-featured-in-ampex-readout-newsletter-april-1967.html"> connection to the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project</a>, where QuadList members Ken Zin and Dennis Wingo are minding Ampex FR-900 transverse scan data recorders that are churning out images of the moon recorded in the late 1960s.</div></div><div><div><br></div></div><div><div>The original PDF and scans are here: <a href="http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/ampex/readout/196704/">http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/ampex/readout/196704/</a></div></div><div><br></div><div>There's some interesting stuff about transverse heads, storing computer tape.</div><div><div><br></div></div><div><div>That let to a link re: Ampex's use of <a href="http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/ampex/brochures/TM1_Brochure_May60.pdf">vacuum columns for digital tape recorders</a>... in the 1960 TM-1 data handler :) Predates the AVR-1 by a bit.</div></div><div><div><br></div></div><div><div>And for computer-interest folks (Ed Sharpe, are you reading??) there are PDFs and software from all kinds of computer systems: <a href="http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/">http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/</a></div></div></blockquote><div><div><br></div><div>Back to work... :)</div><div><br></div><div>Ted</div><div><br></div><div><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; font-size: 14px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Ted Langdell</span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Secretary</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Skype: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>TedLangdell</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">e-mail:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><a href="mailto:ted@quadvideotapegroup.com">ted@quadvideotapegroup.com</a></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br></span></font></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><div><div><div>On May 6, 2013, at 12:17 PM, Randy Hall wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><br><div dir="ltr">Thanks Ted<div>Randy</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Ted Langdell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ted@quadvideotapegroup.com" target="_blank">ted@quadvideotapegroup.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<br><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>Some West Coast lunchtime reading from Randy Hall, K7AGE, the Jan. 1969 edition of Ampex Readout. It's Volume 8-Number 2. </div><div><br></div><div>I've broken it up to keep it from being a mailbox problem for some.</div>
<div>This first part has lots of VR-2000s and Ampex backpack cameras and VR-3000s featured.</div><div><br></div><div>Here's what's ahead:</div><div><br></div><div>Ampex Readout-Vol8-No2-Part1-1968 Conventions.pdf<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>1.6MB</div>
<div>Ampex Readout-Vol8-No2-Part2-1968 Summer Olmpics.pdf<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>1.8MB</div><div>Ampex Readout-Vol8-No2-Part3-Germany ARD & ZDF networks.pdf<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>1.5MB</div>
<div><br></div><div><div>This is part 1 of 3: Ampex Readout-Vol8-No2-Part1-1968 Conventions.pdf</div><div></div></div></div><br><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><div></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>
Randy wrote: </div>
<div><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi,<div><br></div><div>Digging through my garage this weekend I found this 1969 AMPEX READOUT booklet describing the Conventions, Mexico Olympics and other topics.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I have a couple other things to scan over the next couple of days.</div><div><br></div><div>Enjoy</div><div><br></div><div>Randy, K7AGE</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></blockquote>Randy was with GVG 1976-1998, and handled GV switcher support at the Lake Placid Olympics.<div>
<br></div><div>I'll post the other two parts later today.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers!<br><div><br></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div><br><div>
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