[QuadList] History - what is the REAL story

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The TR-70s in the photos are the B versions.  The way to tell is that they have the Tektronix 529 as the scope.  The A version had the RCA TO-4.  A scope that in my opinion was not that great.

Chris Hill


-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis Degan <DennyD1 at verizon.net>
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Sent: Sat, 2 May 2009 2:02 pm
Subject: Re: [QuadList] History - what is the REAL story


  On Apr 30, 2009, at 9:55 PM, Rory Ryan wrote: 
 
> I got to NBC NY in 1981 and worked in Video Tape Maintenance on the 5th floor. 
 
  I say: 
 
  Hi, Rory! I worked in that same shop two years before you. Here's what that spot looked like in 2004 during demolition for ArtWorks: 
  <http://www.flickr.com/photos/dennisdegan/557526384/> 
 
  Rory also said: 
 
> By early the early part of 1983 I was running the small satellite shop that took care of the 8 TCR-100As and 2 TR-70Cs. The TR-70Cs were used to dub commercials onto the carts. One of those TR-70s was soon replaced with the 9th TCR-100 and the engineering and plant integration for that was done by Phil Shaw who subscribes to this list. I was lucky to spend nearly all of my time in the 80's tied (chained?) to those 9 TCR's before they finally were pulled out in 88/89. 
 
  I say: 
 
  When I worked at NBC in 1978-79, there were only 6 TCR-100s on the tape floor, in a lineup along the north side of the building.
 The two TR-70s were not C machines; they were probably TR-70As. 
  <http://www.flickr.com/photos/dennisdegan/515329694/> 
  <http://www.flickr.com/photos/dennisdegan/515357151/> 
 
  Rory: 
 
> In 1981 when I first got there I remember 2 CMX rooms (teletype and paper tape) that had 3 TR-70's each but I don’t remember if they were C's or not. 
 
  I ask: 
 
  Where were the CMX edit rooms located? When I was there back in 1978, there was only one CMX room, near the east end of the tape floor close to the freight elevator. The edit room was equipped with 4 TR-70Cs, the only TR-70Cs in the building at the time. 
  <http://www.flickr.com/photos/dennisdegan/515330370/> 
  <http://www.flickr.com/photos/dennisdegan/515355305/> 
 
  Rory: 
 
> There were BVH-1000's - soon to be 1100a's and there were also BVU-2850s used during Nightly News segment pb. 
 
  I correct: 
 
  I think you mean BVU-200's (or perhaps you mean "VO-2850s". There was no BVU-2850). 
  During my time at NBC in '78, most Nightly News playbacks began operating from the brand-new EJ area on the 4th floor. 
  <http://www.flickr.com/photos/dennisdegan/515343308/> 
  Here are the first two BVH-100s being installed: 
  <http://www.flickr.com/photos/dennisdegan/515328974/> 
  <http://www.flickr.com/photos/dennisdegan/515355785/> 
  The location of these 1-inch VTRs was directly opposite from the CMX edit room shown in the pho
tos above. 
 
  Rory: 
 
> There were still 4 VR-2000s used for on-air playback. These were used periodically through the day but during every midnight shift we aired 2 "Mary Tyler Moore's" and 2 "Newhart's". I also remember there was more than 1 time when 2 of the VR-2000s were used as a delay for soccer where 1 machine recorded and 1 machine played back and the tape loop in between the 2 machines was dropped into and fed out of a (presumably) clean garbage can. 
It worked! 
 
  I offer: 
 
  I guess you are referring to these VTRs: 
  <http://www.flickr.com/photos/dennisdegan/515355073/> 
  Or the other pair opposite, not shown. 
 
  Rory: 
 
> I am pretty sure the on-air VR-2000s were gone by '87 or '88. Only one was kept - in a dub facility for 2" transfers and I believe that machine was eventually moved to NBC's tape facility in NJ where it probably still sits. 
 
  I say: 
 
  And that facility is the NBC warehouse, the same location where "Law and Order-SVU" is shot now: 
  <http://www.flickr.com/photos/dennisdegan/2535716834/> 
  <http://www.flickr.com/photos/dennisdegan/2535717666/> 
 
  Dennis Degan, Editor-Consultant-Knowledge Bank 
  NBC Today Show, New York 
 
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