<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>The MII format didn't come about until 1985 or ‘86. My understanding was that The Tonight Show was being recorded to 1" Type-C at the time MII came out, and they resisted the move to that format.<br><br><div>Scott Thomas</div></div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000"><div style="FONT-SIZE: small; TEXT-DECORATION: none; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri"; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #000000; FONT-STYLE: normal; DISPLAY: inline"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="WHITE-SPACE: normal; WORD-SPACING: 0px; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT: medium helvetica; ORPHANS: 2; WIDOWS: 2; LETTER-SPACING: normal; TEXT-INDENT: 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"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="WHITE-SPACE: normal; WORD-SPACING: 0px; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT: medium helvetica; ORPHANS: 2; WIDOWS: 2; LETTER-SPACING: normal; TEXT-INDENT: 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 style="font-family: Calibri;">Dennis, did they go to MII at that
point? I know we had stereo Ampex quad machines in the early to mid
80s. I am assuming that NBC was all RCA back them, but I have little
experience with those.</span></div>
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<div style="WORD-WRAP: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space"><font size="3" face="Calibri">Mark
Goldsmith</font></div></span></span></div></div></div>
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