[QuadList] TCR-100

[Ron Fleury]

Hi Guys, Been lurking for months...fascinating topic.  I spent a couple of years on and off running quads in Burbank in the late seventies and one thing I do remember about the sequencer on the TCR 100 was that you could not run 10 second spots together on the same machine, since the rewind-reload-cue process took longer than that. Also, the noises from the three TCRs we had then are burned into my memory. Ron Fleury 

--- On Wed, 2/3/10, Dennis Degan <DennyD1 at verizon.net> wrote:

From: Dennis Degan <DennyD1 at verizon.net>
Subject: Re: [QuadList] TCR-100
To: "Quad List" <quadlist at quadvideotapegroup.com>
Date: Wednesday, February 3, 2010, 6:19 AM


        On Feb 3, 2010, at 1:13 AM, Scott Thomas wrote:

> The TCR at WBBH had those thumbwheels that you would turn to select the cart bay and duration I believe (And perhaps other things). I visited WFLA in the late 1980's with my brother and they had two TCRs. I remember at least one of them had some sort of electroluminescent display and a keypad. How did that thing work? Was there some sort of digital code put on the tape's cue track? I assume there was some way to integrate the TCR into a computer traffic system?

        I reply:

    There was, but I don't think that panel had anything to do with external computer traffic systems.  The electroluminescent display you describe was a part of every TCR I worked with.  I'm pretty sure it was used for programming cart playback order and how many carts were to be played in each sequence.  I wish I could remember more about it though.

            Dennis Degan, Video Editor-Consultant-Knowledge Bank
                          NBC Today Show, New York


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