[QuadList] ACR-25

[Don Norwood]

The June 1972 Ampex price list shows the ACR-25 priced at $158,500.  The 
AVR-1 was $110,000, a VR-1200B performance level three was $77,380 and a 
VR-1200C was $89,500.  I would have guessed that there would have been a 
greater price difference between the AVR-1 and 1200C.

Don

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Hello Allan,

"Music to my ears". That is the exact description I would use too!
Although ACR's were very expensive devises ($250,000?), in commercial
playback operations, they were the "cash machine" and allowed sales
departments (and news operations such as the one you worked in) to
randomly change cassette sequences up till the very last seconds. I
seem to recall broken pins on the carousel as one of the causes for
failure. As seen on the youtube video, that particular machine had some
of the carriage assembly exposed. I would surmise from this that they
had the normal "issues" with this part of the machine.



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