[QuadList] Ampex RA-4000

[Chill315 at aol.com]

I was going through some items and came across my book for the  RA-4000  
editing controller.  A beautiful device but with no memory  for an EDL.
 
This was probably the fastest editor that I have ever used.  Everyone  
loved it for doing commercials.  If fact I did one night over 20 in an hour  
that were cores with product and prices to be filled in the holes.  We had  
five machines tied to it.  2 VR-1200B's and 4 AVR-2's.  
 
Somewhere I had read that this was originally a 72 bit machine.  The  
current book has the nomenclature 80 Bit on the instruction book.  Does  anyone 
know the history behind this product and was there a non 80 bit product  
released?
 
Chris Hill
WA8IGN
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