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<br><div><div>On Feb 25, 2016, at 12:15 PM, Ted Langdell via QuadList wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><br><br><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(127, 127, 127, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Ted Langdell <<a href="mailto:Ted@quadvideotapegroup.com">Ted@quadvideotapegroup.com</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(127, 127, 127, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">February 25, 2016 12:15:45 PM PST<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(127, 127, 127, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Quad List <<a href="mailto:quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com">quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(127, 127, 127, 1.0);"><b>Cc: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Tom Sprague <<a href="mailto:trs02446@verizon.net">trs02446@verizon.net</a>>, "Paul R. Beck" <<a href="mailto:Paul_Beck@emerson.edu">Paul_Beck@emerson.edu</a>>, Jay Ballard <<a href="mailto:TK41C@aol.com">TK41C@aol.com</a>>, Pete Fasciano <<a href="mailto:imagenda@aol.com">imagenda@aol.com</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(127, 127, 127, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>60th anniversary of Quad video tape: Help get a VR-1000B to NAB</b><br></span></div><br><br>This April marks the 60th anniversary of the introduction of the first successful video tape recorder at the National Association of Radio and Television Broadcasters in Chicago, Illinois.<br><br>The machine created quite a stir and ushered in a whole raft of technological changes for television production and viewership.<br><br>Because of the work of dedicated engineers, here's a chance you'll be able to see and touch a working Ampex VR-1000B at NAB... IF enough funding can be raised to make the trip from Rhode Island.<br><br>Founders at the Museum of Broadcast Technology in Woonsocket, Rhode Island (some of whom are also on the QuadList and attend our annual luncheon at 12:30 on Tuesday at NAB ) have restored a tube type Ampex VR-1000B and added some color features.<br><br>I've seen this machine waiting for work during visits to the museum, and am pleased that it's now working.<br><br>Quad Video Tape Group member James O'Neal has an article in Television Technology about what it will take to get this machine to Las Vegas. <br><br>Can you help raise funds? It's a tax-deductible donation. Read more here:<br><br><a href="http://www.tvtechnology.com/opinions/0004/museum-seeks-aid-in-getting-vintage-vtr-to-nab-show/278008">http://www.tvtechnology.com/opinions/0004/museum-seeks-aid-in-getting-vintage-vtr-to-nab-show/278008</a><br><br>If you are able to make a donation please do, and let them know how you heard about it.<br><br>Between this group, the OldVTRs list, SMPTE, SBE, and maybe Ampex Old Timers, (or perhaps Ampex Data Systems, the successor to Ampex Corporation) this could be done.<br><br>It would only take 1000 people donating 25 bucks apiece to make it happen.<br><br>I hope folks from the Quad Videotape Group can help. <br><br>Ted<br><br>Ted Langdell<br>Secretary, Quad Videotape Group<br>Ted@quadvideotapegroup.com<br>(530)301-2931<br><br>Dictated into and Sent from my iPhone, which is solely responsible for any weird stuff I didn't catch.<br><br><br><br><br>______________________________________________<br>Please trim posts to relevant info when replying.<br><br>Change subject to reflect thread direction. Thanks.<br>_______________________________________________<br><br>Send QuadList list posts to QuadList@quadvideotapegroup.com<br>Your subscribe, unsubscribe and digest options are here:<br>http://mail.quadvideotapegroup.com/mailman/listinfo/quadlist_quadvideotapegroup.com</blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>