[QuadList] Picture of the day (link to)---and who's in it?

[Bill Carpenter]

Hi Randy and everybody,

Yes, the pre-Olympic centers were great. 
The one for Sarajevo was over near the west side highway and they set-up two or 
three control areas, a graphics area, and 15 three machine edit suites. 

I was there when we delivered the first three VPR-3's and checked out the first 
edit suite. I took a picture of Charlie & Dave Bargen (he built the editor that 
Charlie wanted!) with the editor, and the VPR-3's in the background. 

I took it with my pocket camera, an Olympus OM-2 which was always in my 
briefcase. Charlie asked for some prints, to send to his mother in Austin. I 
sent him the prints and he thanked me, and then I was surprised at the next NAB, 
to see my picture was the cover shot for Dave's New Editor Brochure.

The best was the pre-view they gave to some of the NY Tech magazine folks.
In the article afterward, they wrote a major note about all the plastic garbage 
cans stuffed with cables that were all over the place which they did not 
understand.
Charlie then wrote a counter article relating that they saw the center as a 
temporary test site on one floor, and in Sarajevo it  was to be spread over 6 
floors of a brand new parking garage and the cables in the garbage cans allowed 
connections between all floors through a central stairway that was closed and 
became a cable chase.

Bye for now, Bill





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From: Randy Hall <listk7age at gmail.com>
To: Quad List <quadlist at quadvideotapegroup.com>
Sent: Thu, December 9, 2010 12:37:00 PM
Subject: Re: [QuadList] Picture of the day (link to)---and who's in it?

Bill

I got along great with all the ABC guys. Before the Olympics I was in NYC for 5 
weeks training ABC TDs on the GVG 300. ABC had a bunch of Olympic stuff setup in 
a loft a couple blocks away from the main broadcast center. Each night after 
work a bottle would come out for a few drinks before hitting the road. I made 
sure that I put a bottle out one night each week. From then on, I was then good 
friends with the union guys.

One night in Lake Placid I was in the A control room sitting behind Julie. He 
had his own position with router panel, intercom and so on. He woke up, motioned 
me to come over, and told me that the camera from the ice rink was green. OK, I 
went into master equipment room. Everyone was sitting back with their feet on 
the the desk watching the evening's broadcast. I told them that Julie said the 
camera was green. A couple of guys jumped up, tweaked a proc or something and 
made it all better. I went back into CR A, he nodded at me and I sat back down. 
I was his short cut in communications.

Did you ever see the add, Sony I think, with Julie sitting on the edge of a 
large audio console with the text saying something like, 'Would you sell a 
wireless mic to him?"

Loads of Lake Placid stories...

Randy
K7AGE


      
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