[QuadList] NBC Control System

[dcfwtx at aol.com]

Yes, they were piled up in the edit bay hall way in Burbank. It 
appeared to me that 90% never were installed.

David


-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Adams <garyada at ix.netcom.com>
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Sent: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 6:57 am
Subject: Re: [QuadList] NBC Control System






Anybody remember the Grumman Sync Procs?  I have two of them. A bit 
overkill
but would sync anything into anything.  I think I have the schematics 
and
manuals as well.

Gary Adams


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:quadlist-bounces at quadvideotapegroup.com] On Behalf Of Phillip G.
Shaw
Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 3:15 AM
To: quadlist at quadvideotapegroup.com
Subject: Re: [QuadList] NBC Control System

[quote]You may have more detailed documentation, but I have several RCA
white papers describing many aspects of NBC systems from back in the 
1970's.

Here are links to scans of the first 3 pages of one of the white
papers. This one is named "NBC Switching Central".  Phillip, if you  
don't
have this white paper and you'd like to, I've scanned all 10 pages of 
it and

can either send them to you or link you to the remaining pages once 
they are

uploaded to Flickr.
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/dennisdegan/3403168581/>

[/quote]

Dennis Degan,

I will do you one better (only kidding). Thanks for the White paper; 
page 1
has the picture of a very young person that I know well. Dick 
Edmondson.
Dick & I became good friends when I went into management and he became 
my
most important source for knowledge. The original system evolved over 
the
Years but Dick was also a NBC Software consultant for other projects up 
into

the 90's.  He was living in South Jersey, Medford Lakes.  If he is 
still on
the planet he would most likely love to talk about the NBC system.



I was never in Burbank...  my sources John Fishettte (SP) VP of 
Operations
&  Steve Orland, aka "Flat line" when he messed with SC. They had the 
same
channel Packages and Automation as NY. I think Bob Butler (NY Labs) 
also
updated the Burbank Sky path at the same time as NY. That team was 
under
Jack Weir..



The Panel is the Machine Control, the 10 sync sources was before my 
time.
When you have News, Sports & entertainment plus WNBC & Network it 
becomes
necessary for multiple timing rings. The ZSD (1 line delay) 
installation
made the Control Room daisy chains (re-entry) simpler. The ZSD was a
modified NEC FS18 Frame sync. It was not until 1995 that we were able 
to
replace those with a Leitch (2 line Delay)



Regards,


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