[QuadList] GPTV quads (was SCETV Consoles--did they look like these RCA)

Guy Spiller quadruplex at verizon.net
Wed Jul 22 17:10:24 CDT 2009


Hi Sammy....
Yes, I am a big fan of TR-70s, having worked with them for some 35 years 
now.  I have the two best machines of the four I picked up already up 
and running....very well, actually.  An incredible testament to the 
robustness of their design to have survived as well as they have being 
unpowered and ignored for some 26 years.  I have a few videos of them on 
YouTube if you'd like to see some UGA quad history in action.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFWY2JzrrM4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4yEYYpckYw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6ohnHis-CQ

Guy
www.GuySpiller.com

Sammy Jones wrote:
> Guy,
>
> Glad you saw and liked the photos!  It was a really neat trip, and I was glad to see that SCETV has retained so much of their past.  Unfortunately, GPTV/GPB has not!
>
> I heard that someone got those quads.  Are you trying to restore them?
>
> I doubt that your machines recorded the GETV quads; as you may know although WGTV is now wholly owned and operated by Georgia Public Broadcasting (actually the Georgia Public Telecommunications Commission), before the 1980s, WGTV and GETV/GPTV were affiliated but entirely separate entities.  GPTV has maintained production headquarters in Atlanta since the 1960s, while WGTV was based in Athens at UGA.
>
> Sammy Jones
> Associate Producer
> Georgia Public Broadcasting
>
> Guy wrote:
> As as aside, I might have the very machine that recorded that "Georgia 
> Educational Television Network" quad tape.  I picked up four machines 
> this spring from the University of Georgia campus in Athens that were 
> used at WGTV when the studio was there.
> Guy
>
>
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Guy Spiller
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