<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><head></head><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Among those solutions was a </font><a href="http://www.labguysworld.com/Merlin_ME68.htm" style="font-size: medium; "><span style="text-decoration: underline ; letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #210095">10-unit Quad dubbing system for Vidtronics</span></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">, a Los Angeles post production and dub facility. Merlin used the Japanese Shibaden SV-7000 Quad machine as the transport, but designed new electronics. Merlin promoted the results in brochures like the one at right (</font><b>which Don Norwood posted on June 6, 2009</b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">) listing the price per slave at $22,000.</font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Merlin wizard Ken Zin recalls that Al "designed the signal system with VHO, multiple television standards, hi-band and low band color and low band Black and White." Delivered in 1977, the quality exceeded Vidtronics' "wildest expectations." Director of Engineering Jack Calaway wrote Merlin that, " The proof of this is shown clearly in the quality of our dubs. The video and audio quality and servo stability exceed our specifications in every respect."</font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">In March, 1984, Al and his wife Constance formed Wideband Video Labs, Inc., which provided a platform for the design and manufacture of a variety of electronics for video and medical uses. His family recalls that </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #333333">Al designed and built custom one-off equipment for clients like NASA, Intel, Leapfrog, and Sony Medical Systems.</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Al's clients also included <span style="text-decoration: underline ; letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #210095"><a href="http://www.habsphoto.com/GalleryMain.asp?GalleryID=129679&AKey=E4VXE478">Technicolor's massive Camarillo, California VHS tape dubbing facility</a></span> seen in this photographer's gallery (scroll to bottom of gallery for photo). </font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Al designed equipment for high-speed transfers, working with QuadList member (and friend) Pat Shevlin who was Technicolor's Director of Worldwide Engineering.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"></font></div></div></body></html>