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

Guy Spiller quadruplex at verizon.net
Thu Jul 2 14:10:04 CDT 2009


That could very well be, Ted.  The director of this Army stuff is the 
one who brought them to me.  This particular recording was made at Fort 
Benning, GA.
He was not too technically inclined, as I asked him about the equipment 
he used back then.  He did say the Army had some remote trucks with 
quads in them and these tapes were shot with one of them, but he really 
didn't remember for sure, but he "thought" they might have been RCA. He 
was a bit more sure that the cameras were RCA.  I wouldn't put too much 
faith in his recollection though!
Guy

Ted Langdell wrote:
> 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 
> <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
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