[QuadList] Toshiba version of Colortec/Amtec

[Don Norwood]

David:

I've heard that sentiment expressed before.  I've always thought that it was extremely odd that WBTV got the first RCA VTRX, given the fact that they had always been (and still are) a CBS affiliate.  In fact the station, radio and TV, was almost totally RCA.  But another oddity there was that the production arm of the company which had its own studio in the same building was an "RCA Free" zone with nothing from Camden in sight.

Don
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  Chis, 


  This was a stand alone unit that came from a long time CBS affiliate in the mid west. The station was all Ampex VTR's and GE cameras (no RCA gear whatsoever). I asked the CE why he had no RCA equipment. The answer: "they are the enemy". 


  David


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  David

  I know hat the Shibaden units were almost direct copies of the Ampex units.  The only difference was that the units were metric in several areas.  The only difference that I could find were that there was the addition of a video gain pot in either the Amtec or Colortec electronics.  Otherwise they were carbon copies.  

  So what is the unit that you have?  Unknown by me but it is not for any machine that I have seen in the literature.  

  Chris Hill
  WA8IGN
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