[QuadList] Now SCETV 1-inch Consoles-(Was Videotape of CBS Kennedy assassination)

[Ted Langdell]

Hi, Dennis,

Did they look anything like the two machines in this photo from KMUV,  
Sacramento?

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http://www.sbe124.org/Tours/Sacramento/KMUV/KMUV_tweaking_1974_400X600.jpg


On Jul 21, 2009, at 11:09 AM, Dennis Degan wrote:

> In the mid 70's, I worked at WIS-TV in Columbia, SC not far from  
> SCETV's network operations center (the old one).  At that time,  
> SCETV had a couple of AVR-1's.  Sammy, what year did you see those  
> quads in action?
> 	The last time I was there in 1979, in addition to the AVR-1's, they  
> had a bunch of upright consoles which housed 1-inch VTR's.  I've  
> never seen that type of machine since.  The memory is dim; I don't  
> know who made those 1-inch VTR's.  I'm sure that they were not RCA,  
> but they could have been made by either Ampex or Sony.  I'm also  
> pretty sure that they weren't VPR-3's (this was in 1979 so it was  
> too early for VPR-3's).  The consoles were wide, sort of like those  
> quad machines we saw a while ago here, mounted in an airplane for  
> the Army.  They might have been specially built consoles just for  
> SCETV, not sure.
>
> 			Dennis Degan


Ted Langdell
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