<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body dir="auto"><div>This just in from quad list member Keith Graham, chair of the San Francisco SMPTE section:</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">----</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><div id="AppleMailSignature">"In June this year the the Silicon Valley y chapter of the IEEE, in conjunction with the San Francisco section of SMPTE unveiled an IEEE Historical Milestone plaque commemorating the 60th anniversary of the launch of the first commercially viable videotape recorder, the Ampex VR1000. The plaque is located at the Green Library at Stanford University where VR1000 #4 is on display.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"> </div><div id="AppleMailSignature">I am pleased to say that the video of the event, along with reminiscenses from Fred Pfost, the last remaining member of the original development team, and other people with connections to Ampex in those days, was debuted at the SMPTE Annual Tech Conference in Hollywood last week.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"> </div><div id="AppleMailSignature">The video is now available for viewing on the SMPTE SF YouTube page at this URL: </div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><a href="https://youtu.be/CEgcf6WwVBw">https://youtu.be/CEgcf6WwVBw</a></div><div id="AppleMailSignature"> </div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Please feel free to pass on the link to anyone else you feel would enjoy the program."</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><div id="AppleMailSignature"> </div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Keith I. Graham<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Consultant - Broadcast and Rich Media<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img border="0" width="64" height="23" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:A86CC3B8-0C3B-43D2-A01C-42FDCF7740A5" alt="SMPTE 100 White background_signature"> <b>SMPTE San Francisco Chair<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Cell: <a dir="ltr" href="tel:408-921-2078" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="telephone" x-apple-data-detectors-result="5/0">408-921-2078</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Fax: <a dir="ltr" href="tel:408-261-2876" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="telephone" x-apple-data-detectors-result="5/1">408-261-2876</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">email: <a href="mailto:tom.deyo@AZCAR.com">keith@graham-associates.tv</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p></div></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">------</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</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></body></html>