[QuadList] Gene Kelley Show color recording system

[Dennis Degan]

>                  I queried:
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>         You mean NBC had MORE TCR-100s installed after these? -
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>         I thought the old TCRs were replaced with Panasonic MII 
> Multiplay machines (I forgot what they were named) around 1984 or so.  
> If your statement is true (and I believe you), those new TCRs must 
> have hung on for only about a year or so.
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			On Jan 2, 2009, at 8:55 PM, John R. Schilberg wrote:

 > I did a Google search on the Panasonic MARC system and came across 
this tid-bit from a recording book authored by C. Denis Mee, Mark H. 
Clark. Here's a snippet from "Magnetic Recording: The First 100 
Years"...
There were four or five machines in a cart, and each waited its turn. 
In 1987 the Panasonic MARC (M-II automated recording/playback cassette 
system)...

			I now say:

	Thanks for jogging my memory, John.  It's Panasonic's MARC system that 
replaced the TCRs at NBC.  I wasn't there then.

			Dennis Degan, Editor-Consultant-Knowledge Bank
	  				NBC Today Show, New York