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<div><font face="arial">I believe CBC did this in Canada as well. I think it was a union that wanted this</font><font face="arial"> re heavy tapes.
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<font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b> Don Norwood [quadlist@digitrakcom.com]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, November 19, 2015 9:18 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: AVR 2 Questons for machines near end of run<br>
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<div>Hi Chris:<br>
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I can answer some of this....</div>
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<div>As to the A/D convertor, the the engineering drawings are dated ‘79 and ‘80.</div>
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<div>The sloped transport was easy to do with the design of the Ampex “cart” that the deck sits in. Add a wedge or some type of support bracket and you could have the transport sloped very easily, but I don’t think it was a factory offering.</div>
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<div>The picture on David’s site is from one of the vtoldboys webpages <a title="http://www.vtoldboys.com/hw1970.htm" href="http://www.vtoldboys.com/hw1970.htm" target="_blank">
http://www.vtoldboys.com/hw1970.htm</a> and is of a BBC machine taken in the late 90’s. My guess is that the control panel was a BBC special product. It certainly is very different from the several standard panels available from Ampex.</div>
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Digitrak Communications, Inc.<br>
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<div><b>From:</b> <a title="Chill315@aol.com" href="mailto:Chill315@aol.com">Chill315@aol.com</a>
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<div>Perhaps Bill Carpenter will be the expert on this one.</div>
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<div>David Dean in Great Britain has an AVR 2 with the TRW A to D chip instead of the original A to D boards. I also looked at the picture that he has on line showing the machine. There was a different control panel layout. see
<a href="http://www.westpoint.tv" target="_blank">www.westpoint.tv</a> for the pictures</div>
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<div>So when did Ampex change the A to D design to the TRW chip? How many were made with this?</div>
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<div>When did the control panel change to place the meters on the left side? </div>
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<div>I have seen pictures of a number of machines that have the deck tilted at an angle. Was this an Ampex option or did this become standard on later machines?</div>
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<div>Or are these things making this a one off machine?</div>
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<div>Chris Hill</div>
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