[QuadList] newbie intro

[Dale Lamm]

Glad to have stumbled onto this list. Brought here by a story on QRZ.com 
about salvaging old NASA 2 inch lunar orbiter tapes.

Hope I can contribute to the group. FCC first phone age 17, immediately 
started part time at local UHF in the early 70's doing everything from 
Plumbicon to klystron. Came the mighty 8080, did software 25 years, now a 
commercial radio chief.

Enjoyed fixing quads. You could tell a lot by watching demod out and 
listening to the headwheel spin up. Maintaining a TR-5 in a Ford Econoline 
van (4 season remotes) was a bit difficult. Worked on TR-22, TR-50, TR-600, 
and my favorite, VR-1200B. Left TV about the time one inch took off.

Saw a question in the digest about 6.5 mil quad heads. When Warner bought 
the local (12 channel!) cable TV system in my town (late 70's), they played 
recent movies on one of the channels to premium subscribers. Believe they 
used TR-600's with "half track" high-band heads, because the tape ran at 
just 7.5 IPS (no reel change required if you used a "90 minute" roll of 
tape).

Dale