<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><div><span></span></div><div><div><span></span></div><div><div>Hi, Ed,<br><br></div><div>I'll try to answer your question and challenge:</div><div><br></div><div>It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. More about that at towards the end of this message. More about why it costs what it costs and here:</div><div><br></div><div>It's big and it's heavy and some parts are delicate, and it has to come all the way across the country.</div><div><br></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But, keep in mind that this VR – 1000Bs were used in trucks for remote production, back in the day. </span></div><div><br></div><div>When it gets to Vegas, you pay for it to be unloaded, moved to the booth, re-loaded into a truck and taken back across the country.</div><div><br></div><div>That's the short logistics. But the devil is in the details.</div><div><br>You're dealing with two, 7 foot tall racks of <i>tube</i> type equipment.</div><div><br></div><div>The transport that you've seen pictures of is roughly 2 1/2 racks wide. It has an overbridge. It's very heavy. It's not something one or two people can physically lift up on their own. It requires the use of material handling equipment. <br></div><div><br></div><div>All of this equipment should be crated in order to protect the gear, and to allow for easier handling during shipment and when it arrives at the convention center in Las Vegas. There's a cost to create the crates and get the equipment in them. But it makes safely moving stuff like this possible on a routine basis. </div><div><br>There's a <i>significant</i> difference in how much Per hundred weight – 100 pounds – it costs to move equipment that's crated and can be moved with a forklift compared to equipment that is simply "blanket wrapped" or is "lose".</div><div><br>The $25,000 we've been mentioning handles the cost of building crates, getting the equipment into the crates, loading the crates into a gentle truck, shipping across the country, scheduling the truck to arrive at the marshaling yard at a particular time to wait for the go ahead to unload at the convention center, unloading at the convention center on "move in" day, moving the equipment to the booth, storing the empty crates during the show, bringing the crates back to the booth after the show is over, loading them on a truck for the trip back to Rhode Island, and unloading them once they arrive back at the museum.<br><br>It also covers the cost of wiring a three wire 220 AC feed to the booth to handle the power requirements of this particular piece of gear.<br><br>At a convention center like Las Vegas, there is a charge for all kinds of things. Power. Installing wiring for the power. Moving stuff around, called "material handling." There may be a few hours of labor time and one or two house labor people involved to extract the equipment from crates and put it back in again when the show is over.</div><div><br></div><div>It's not that convention centers are trying to make huge amounts of money off exhibitors, although we exhibitors do tend to squawk when it gets expensive. </div><div><br></div><div>There IS a cost for them to provide the services, have the equipment available to move things around, the people to do that, pay the power bill, et Cetera, et Cetera, etc.</div><div><br></div><div>And before anyone gets excited about volunteering to do X, Y or Z, there are restrictions on how much an exhibitor can do in their booth, who is considered exhibitor staff and what they are allowed to do. Part of it is safety concerns. Part of it is labor concerns. Part of it is logistics.</div><div><br></div><div>You can imagine what chaos would exist if every exhibitor insisted on having their own forklift(s) their own forklift operator(s), bringing the trucks carrying their equipment in at any time they wanted.</div><div><br></div><div>Or if power was not properly supplied to booths, power cables were miswired, or installed in an unsafe manner. Or not installed in time for someone to get their booth up and running before Sunday's 2pm deadline. </div><div><br></div><div>That deadline exists so that all forklift traffic and material handling is done, aisles are clear and the aisle carpet can be laid down. That's a process that takes all afternoon and night to do. Try that in four huge exhibit halls.</div><div><br>It's just simply a fact of life that one deals with this Way of doing things when exhibiting at tradeshows like this.</div><div><br></div><div>The museum is quite blessed with the fact that <b>the booth space is donated by NAB.</b><br><br></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>Otherwise, A 10' x 10' booth in one of the halls would run $10,000. </div><div><br></div><div>Multiply exponentially for larger booths and you get an idea of how much the space goes for for and the necessity of having a system in place that ensures everybody gets set up in a timely fashion and later out the door in a timely fashion.</div><div><br></div><div>This is not just a circumstance where somebody can roll something up in a truck, drive it across the country to Las Vegas unload, roll it in on their own and then set it up.<br><br>tthe cost of renting your own truck <i>tall</i> enough to handle the racks and driving it across the country and back again is not necessarily less expensive than shipping it by a carrier.</div><div><br></div><div>Calculate the cost of the truck rental, the fuel, expenses for five days on the road including meals and Hotel for one or two people. It all adds up to quite close to if not more than the cost of having it shipped by a freight company or better yet, a moving company that has a gentler ride for the equipment.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>So... Why do this? What's the ROI?</div><div><br></div><div>Quite a few, actually:</div><div><br></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This Anniversary-connected opportunity is not likely to be practical in the future, that is:</span></div></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><br></div><div>To show a working example of the VR – 1000 series equipment that kicked off video tape 60 years ago to mark and celebrate the 60th anniversary of the introduction to videotape.. </div><div><br></div><div>The benefits to NAB attendees include that they get to actually see something that is — in today's world — rather unusual, and to gain some insight into the foundation of much the broadcast industry today. </div><div><br></div><div>Working on this equipment supported a lot of people over a period of time. </div><div><br></div><div>It opened the door to a variety of on-screen production techniques that are still used, even if the equipment is the size of a laptop or your iPhone and uses software instead of hey Smith splicer, Edivue, a razor blade and some metallized mylar tape. And on the hunan side, Skill, and practice.</div><div><br></div><div>It enables a discussion with folks that have archives of videotape that needs migration about what it takes to do that.</div><div><br>For the museum:</div><div><br></div><div>iI showcases what it's founders are able to do with equipment, and helps generate support for the physical repository, the restoration of what's in it, and I would hope, the ability to train younger people in how to restore, operate, and appreciate the equipment that's been collected and is slowly being restored.<br><br>Financial support would assist that effort. This showcase can help generate that support. </div><div><br></div><div>You can't support what you don't know about it. Exposing people through NAB helps people know about the museum of Broadcast Technology <br><br></div><div>Exhibitions like NAB are expensive. But NAB draws 90,000+ people — attendees and exhibitors included. </div><div><br></div><div>It's unlikely that the museum would expose what it's doing to even a fraction of that many people if this equipment and other gear they have brought over the years remained in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. </div><div><br></div><div>While not all of the attendees are going to be passing the Booth by the doors into North Hall from the taxi stand area, there still a lot of people passing by, or would an effort to come see this unique opportunity if they hear about it. </div><div><br></div><div>People do stop. And I guarantee you that a working VR – 1000 is going to stop traffic! And generate word mouth about "you got to go see this."</div><div><br></div><div>End it will generate recollections about when people used this sort of equipment, which can be recorded on site for preservation.</div><div><br></div><div>How do I know that?</div><div><br></div><div>Our little Zinfurbished Sony AV – 8650 EIAJ color deck stopped traffic passing our booth in lower South Hall last year, and I know it's going to do the same thing this year. </div><div><br></div><div>People were talking. About their use of the equipment or, "I've never seen that before. What is it?"<br><br>That's the value. </div><div><br></div><div>What happens after that is up to whoever's in the booth and how they present information and the benefits of supporting the museum or in my case, buying a Zinfurbished AV 8650. </div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">For some of us </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">who were between one and seven years old when this equipment was initially in use, we might be able to push Play on a piece of equipment we were likely never able to see or touch at that age.</span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And it will certainly give us all something to appreciate and talk about, feel, touch, here, during our annual Tuesday lunch at NAB.</span></div></div><div><br></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I hope this somewhat lengthy explanation helps folks understand what is involved in safely getting this piece of equipment to NAB and back again. </span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Again, This Anniversary-connected opportunity is not likely to repeat itself. </span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The equipment's getting older. We all are getting older. And who knows what's going to happen or be possible five or ten years from now. </span></div><div><br></div><div>If 25,000 NAB attendees contributed a dollar, this would be no sweat or strain at all. </div><div><br></div><div>A start is to get this message in front of them and direct them to the museum's GoFundMe page:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.gofundme.com/wmbt.org">https://www.gofundme.com/wmbt.org</a></div><div><br></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If this is helpful, please share this fundraising effort with your colleagues and friends who are attending NAB, or who might make the effort to attend if this unique piece of equipment was there.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Free NAB exhibit passes are available through the end of March. Feel free to use LV3654. </span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div>Cheers from California. </div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ted</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ted Langdell</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Secretary, Quad Videotape Group</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="mailto:Ted@quadvideotapegroup.com">Ted@quadvideotapegroup.com</a></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">(530)301-2931</span></div><div><br></div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dictated into and Sent from my iPhone, which is solely responsible for any weird stuff I didn't catch.</span><br><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div></div><div><br>On Mar 8, 2016, at 5:49 PM, <a href="mailto:COURYHOUSE@aol.com">COURYHOUSE@aol.com</a> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<div>In a message dated 3/8/2016 12:51:41 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
<a href="mailto:quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com">quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com</a> writes:</div>
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VR-1000B to NAB --Update--Mike Boland donates $1000<br>From: Ted Langdell
<<a href="mailto:Ted@quadvideotapegroup.com">Ted@quadvideotapegroup.com</a>><br>Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 11:51:18
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<<a href="mailto:QuadList@quadvideotapegroup.com">QuadList@quadvideotapegroup.com</a>>,<br>Tom Sprague
<<a href="mailto:trs02446@verizon.net">trs02446@verizon.net</a>>, Pete Fasciano <<a href="mailto:imagenda@aol.com">imagenda@aol.com</a>>,<br>Jay
Ballard <<a href="mailto:TK41C@aol.com">TK41C@aol.com</a>>, "Paul R. Beck"
<<a href="mailto:Paul_Beck@emerson.edu">Paul_Beck@emerson.edu</a>><br>To: Ted Langdell
<<a href="mailto:ted@quadvideotapegroup.com">ted@quadvideotapegroup.com</a>><br><br><br>
<div>Quad list member and Boland Communications LCD/OLED monitor
company founder Mike Boland has donated $1000 to get the VR 1000B
to NAB. </div>
<div><br></div>
<div>Richard Milton has donated $35. Park Seward has donated $100. Norm
Herzog has donated $100. Chuck Conrad donated $50, and Glen Pensinger kicked
it off with $50. </div>
<div><br></div>
<div>That's $1335 and $23,665 to go. </div>
<div><br></div>
<div>34 days left until Wednesday, March 30.<br><br>$696.02 needed per day to
raise the total. Please share with your friends and broadcast
colleagues.</div>
<div><br></div>
<div><a title="https://www.gofundme.com/wmbtorg" href="https://www.gofundme.com/wmbtorg">https://www.gofundme.com/wmbtorg</a></div>
<div><br></div>
<div>And visit Mike in the Boland booth: SL4995</div>
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<div>Thanks to all!</div>
<div><br>
<div><span>Ted</span></div>
<div><span><br></span></div>
<div><span>Ted Langdell</span></div>
<div><span>Secretary, Quad Videotape Group</span></div>
<div><span><a title="mailto:Ted@quadvideotapegroup.com" href="mailto:Ted@quadvideotapegroup.com">Ted@quadvideotapegroup.com</a></span></div>
<div><span>(530)301-2931</span></div>
<div><br></div><span>Dictated into and Sent from my iPhone, which is solely
responsible for any weird stuff I didn't catch.</span><br>
<div><span><br></span></div></div>
<div><br>On Mar 2, 2016, at 12:33 PM, Ted Langdell <<a title="mailto:ted@quadvideotapegroup.com" href="mailto:ted@quadvideotapegroup.com">ted@quadvideotapegroup.com</a>>
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<div>Greetings on the first Hump-day in March!</div>
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<div>There seems to be some confusion about the nature of the VR-1000B that
the Museum of Broadcast Technology wants to display at NAB on the 60th
Anniversary of Videotape.</div></div>
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<div><b>About the VR-1000B involved in this NAB 2016 Display:</b></div>
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<div>This post is to clarify:</div>
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<div>MBT has two VR-1000 models: The one they’d like to display at
NAB which is seen here in Sept. 2013:</div>
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<div>and another just to the right of this unit’s racks that uses VR-1200
electronics, which was posted about earlier this week.</div>
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<div><b>Confused?:</b></div>
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<div>Perhaps the confusion occurred when a photo of the machine with
VR-1200 electronics was posted, but the poster but did not change the
subject line or make clear which machine was involved.</div>
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<div>A later series of posts attempted to do that including several that
were sent by MBT co-founders who aren’t subscribed to the QuadList.
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<div>(See below for their comments and what I’m doing to subscribe
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<div>Because of that, I’ve had some off-list e-mails from people who were
confused. So this e-mails is an attempt to address that.
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<div>Please make sure you DO change the subject line when taking a thread
in another direction, and please DO try to caption pictures in such a way
that it’s clear what’s pictured. </div>
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<div><b>Ooopses happen, and I hope we can forgive them and do better
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<div><b>The machine to be displayed as it is now:</b></div>
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<div>This photo shows the VR-1000B to be displayed in operation at MBT,
with its two racks of tube electronics to the right of the
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<div><b>What this VR-1000B is equipped with:</b></div>
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<div>Tom Sprague advised in a non-list communication that <b>this machine
for NAB has what was “native” to the VR-1000 series</b>:</div>
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<div>“One thing I should make clear is that we did NOT modify the machine
for color operation."</div>
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<div>Yes, the original VR-1000B could not do "direct color," but the
official Ampex upgrade path was to install Intersync, Amtec, and
Colortec. </div>
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<div>That is what was done at some time in the past, maybe 1964 or
1965? The machine came all wired and all modified for these
accessories. </div>
<div><br>The machine was in service at least until 1975, so it operated as
a color machine for most of
its life. <br><br>Tom"</div></blockquote></div>
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<div><b>Regarding the “other” machine, Tom advised:</b></div>
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<div>"Yes Ted. David is pictured with the VR-1000HB. This is a VR-1000B
converted to high band with VR-1200 components by Ampex of Canada. The
conversion was offered as a kit. </div>
<div><br></div>
<div>We have had that one working for a while. </div>
<div><br></div>
<div>Tom"</div></div></blockquote></div>
<div><br></div>
<div>MBT co-founder Jay Ballard replied to the post containing the picture
of the “other” machine," (which didn’t go out to the QuadList because he’s
not yet subscribed.)</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>In the message CC'd to the poster Jay's MBT colleagues and myself, he
said:<br>
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<div><font size="2">Tom has worked tirelessly to get the 1000B working w/o
complete documentation. It eventually locks up and plays LBC
with AMTEC and Colortec.. We are desperate for an Ampex tube
Intersync drawing, V6</font></div>
<div><font size="2"></font> </div>
<div><font size="2">I had to rebuild the WFMs, PIXM, and 5 250 V 1 Amp
PSUs in between camera repairs. BTW, it is not the VTR in the
picture, but it is to the left of that VTR.</font></div>
<div><font size="2"></font> </div>
<div><font size="2">Tom deserves the Order of the Iron Test Pattern for
his hard work. Me, the John Frishette award for boozing.</font></div>
<div><font size="2"></font> </div>
<div><font size="2">Jay
Ballard</font></div></blockquote></div></blockquote><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
<div><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div></font></div>
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correspondents to the QuadList, as their replies have been held as
non-subscribers. However the admin access right now is not behaving
properly. Bad caps? Off frequency? Will try again later
from a different device.)</span></b></blockquote>
<div>
<div><br></div><b>Donating:</b><br>
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<div>
<div style="MARGIN: 0px">Getting this example of the first model of video
tape recorder to NAB for the 60th anniversary of the unveiling of
commercially successful video tape can be achieved if you and 991
other people contribute $25 or more.</div></div>
<div>
<div style="MARGIN: 0px"><br></div></div>
<div>
<div style="MARGIN: 0px">QuadList and long-time engineer, SMPTE Member and
author Glen Pensinger kicked the drive off with a $50 contribution on
Sunday. </div>
<div style="MARGIN: 0px"><br></div>
<div style="MARGIN: 0px">Chuck Conrad followed with $50 on Monday.
</div>
<div style="MARGIN: 0px"><br></div>
<div style="MARGIN: 0px">And 18 hours ago, former Ampex “old timer” and
Quad guy Norm Herzog gave $100.</div></div>
<div style="MARGIN: 0px"><br></div>
<div style="MARGIN: 0px">So there’s only $24,800 to go. </div>
<div>
<div style="MARGIN: 0px"><br></div></div>
<div>
<div style="MARGIN: 0px">The Museum needs to have funds in hand by March
30.</div></div>
<div>
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<div style="COLOR: rgb(20,25,35); MARGIN: 0px">33 people a day making a
$25 contribution</div>
<div style="COLOR: rgb(20,25,35); MARGIN: 0px">15 people a day making a
$50 donation or </div>
<div style="COLOR: rgb(20,25,35); MARGIN: 0px">8.26 people a day giving
$100</div></blockquote></blockquote><font color="#141923">
<div><font color="#141923"><br></font></div>
<div><font color="#141923"><b>Where to donate:</b></font></div><br></font>
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<div style="COLOR: rgb(20,25,35); MARGIN: 0px">The clock is ticking
and Museum of Broadcast Technology has reactivated its GoFundMe
page:</div></div>
<div>
<div style="COLOR: rgb(59,89,152); MARGIN: 0px"><br></div></div>
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<div style="COLOR: rgb(59,89,152); MARGIN: 0px"><a title="https://www.gofundme.com/wmbt.org" href="https://www.gofundme.com/wmbt.org">https://www.gofundme.com/wmbt.org</a></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><font color="#141923">
<div><br></div><b>What you can do in addition to funding this
project:</b></font>
<div><font color="#141923"><b><br></b></font>
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<div style="COLOR: rgb(20,25,35); MARGIN: 0px">Please share this with your
friends and colleagues, the broadcast engineering and technology societies
of which you may be a member. </div></div>
<div>
<div style="COLOR: rgb(20,25,35); MARGIN: 0px"><br></div></div>
<div>
<div style="COLOR: rgb(20,25,35); MARGIN: 0px">Pass the hat at your March
organization meetings, (or pass around an iPad set to the go fund me page,
so individuals can make contributions while your meeting is in progress.)
</div>
<div style="COLOR: rgb(20,25,35); MARGIN: 0px"><br></div>
<div style="COLOR: rgb(20,25,35); MARGIN: 0px">At the least, print out a
flyer with this information. (I’ll try to devise a PDF and post it
to the list.)</div></div>
<div>
<div style="COLOR: rgb(20,25,35); MARGIN: 0px"><br></div></div>
<div style="COLOR: rgb(20,25,35); MARGIN: 0px">Use your Social Media
(Facebook, Twitter, etc.) to spread the word.</div>
<div style="COLOR: rgb(20,25,35); MARGIN: 0px"><br></div>
<div>
<div style="COLOR: rgb(20,25,35); MARGIN: 0px">Your contributions are
tax-deductible, and will be recognized by the Museum of Broadcast
Technology, and by the Quad Videotape Group which is helping the
fundraising effort.</div></div>
<div>
<div style="COLOR: rgb(20,25,35); MARGIN: 0px"><br></div></div>
<div>
<div style="COLOR: rgb(20,25,35); MARGIN: 0px">The Museum of Broadcast
Technology has been bringing equipment to NAB since 2013, beginning with
the smallest quad machine you've ever seen, the Ampex VR – 3000. In
2014, they brought an RCA TP-10 portable Quad. </div></div>
<div style="COLOR: rgb(20,25,35); MARGIN: 0px"><br></div></blockquote><font color="#141923">Your help will make it more likely that there’s a Quad machine
at NAB on the 60th Anniversary of the unveiling of videotape.</font></div>
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<div><font color="#141923"><br></font></div>
<div><font color="#141923">These machines provided work for engineers,
employment for television production staff, Ampex employees and their
parts manufacturers, and improved the quality of what television viewers
have seen since 1956… particularly on the West Coast and then
world-wide.</font></div></blockquote>
<div><br>Thanks for your time, interest and help moving this machine from
Woonsocket, Rhode Island to Las Vegas and back. </div>
<div><br></div>
<div>It will certainly give us all something to talk about and marvel at
during the Quad Videotape Group Annual Lunch at NAB at 12:30pm, Tuesday,
April 19, 2016.</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>And a working backdrop for oral histories about your experiences with
VR-1000s and other Quad machines.</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>Cheers!<br>
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<div style="MARGIN: 0px"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12px">Secretary</span></div>
<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; MARGIN: 0px"><a title="http://www.quadvideotapegroup.com/" href="http://www.quadvideotapegroup.com/"></a><a title="http://www.quadvideotapegroup.com/" href="http://www.quadvideotapegroup.com/">Quad Videotape Group</a></div>
<div style="MARGIN: 0px"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12px">iPhone: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="WHITE-SPACE: pre"> </span>(530)
301-2931</span></div>
<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; MARGIN: 0px"><a title="mailto:ted@QuadVideotapeGroup.com" href="mailto:ted@QuadVideotapeGroup.com">ted@QuadVideotapeGroup.com</a></div>
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