[QuadList] Guy's Army tape playback--Was it recorded in one of these?? (and other misc. things)

[Ted Langdell]

Hi, Guy, and list,

In looking for something else (529 waveform monitor) ran across this  
document from former Ampex guy Chuck Colby's website.

http://www.chuckcolby.com/ armytv.html

This outlines an Ampex-built series of remote trucks with VR-1100's in  
them.  Caused me to wonder whether the Army LBM tape Guy featured in  
his recent TR-70 post might have been recorded in one of these vans.

Chuck's resume notes several built under his supervision while at  
Ampex from 1966-77.

He also had something to do with pairing the VR-3000B with the Ampex  
TBC-900 for a portable broadcast system:
http://www.chuckcolby.com/portabroadcast.html

Anyone have a TBC-900?

I've seen some of his work near me... in the original Ampex turnkey  
installation for Sacramento's channel 31, then called KMUV-TV, which  
featured movies all day in its initial incarnation.

http://www.sbe124.org/Tours/Sacramento/KMUV/  Note the 1200's in the  
first picture.

What I don't remember seeing when I first visited (after it went into  
bankruptcy a few years later) are the pair of
Type A machines in the background of this photo:
http://www.sbe124.org/Tours/Sacramento/KMUV/KMUV_tweaking_1974_400X600.jpg

I'd guess these were fully decked out VR-7900's?  Wonder where they  
went.

Ted


Ted Langdell
Secretary
Skype: 	TedLangdell
e-mail:	ted at quadvideotapegroup.com

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