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

[Ted Langdell]

Colby's website says the Ampex units were delivered to  Fort Knox,  
Fort Rucker and Fort Sill... but being Mobile, they could have gone  
anywhere.

That's not to say that RCA hadn't gotten a piece of the mobile pie, too.

Ted

On Jul 2, 2009, at 12:10 PM, Guy Spiller wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
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