[QuadList] RCA Television Tape Recorders on Quadvideotapegroup.com

[Ted Langdell]

Hi, Don,

Thanks for the background.

It would appear that the only production model is the machine at the  
top of the first page.  Without seeing additional racks, can you  
easily tell whether this is a monochrome or color machine?

We'll add your augmenting text as soon as I can.

Ted

On Apr 16, 2009, at 5:22 PM, Don Norwood wrote:

> Hi Ted:
>
> The pictures on the website identified as "pre-production TRT-1AC"  
> machines at NBC could more accurately be identified as model VTRX  
> which was the official RCA designation.  While they certainly were  
> pre-TRT-1AC, they were actually pre-TRT-1A as the AC (color) version  
> came even later.  The original VTRX occupied 7 racks which was  
> reduced to 6 for the field test machines, whereas the production  
> TRT-1A was reduced to 5.  Then later, the C version added a 6th rack  
> for color.   A major change in the layout between the VTRX and the  
> production machines was the location of the control panel.  On the X  
> it was to the left of the transport while the production machines  
> were all to the right.
>
> The machines installed at WBTV were the first quads that I ever  
> saw.  Some years later, I spent a good bit of time with both TRT-1A  
> and TRT-1B machines.  There were two more variants of the tube  
> machines, the TR-11 and then the TR-2.  Each incorporated more solid  
> state circuitry, much of which formed the basic design for the TR-22  
> which followed them.
>
> Don
>
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