[QuadList] Early CMX Documentation

Guy Spiller quadruplex at verizon.net
Sat Feb 20 21:00:59 CST 2010


Dennis,
What is in the three sloped front racks between the machines...maybe 
some routing switchers?  I see what looks like a 520 vectorscope, but I 
can't make anything else out in there.
Guy

Dennis Degan wrote:
>
>  
>         I offer:
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>     Comment:  When I first worked at NBC in New York in 1978, there 
> was exactly ONE CMX 300 on the tape floor.  It was the first CMX I had 
> ever seen.  Unfortunately, I took no pictures of it (how stupid of 
> me).  But I did get a shot of two of the four TR-70C VTRs assigned to 
> that editing room:
>                 <http://www.flickr.com/photos/dennisdegan/515355305/>
>     Since then, I've edited many sessions on CMX, leading up to the 
> CMX 3600 systems at Unitel Video in New York.  The last one I edited 
> on was at YES Network (the Yankees Baseball Network) in their original 
> facility that previously was Manhattan Transfer/Edit.  That was in 
> 2003.  I believe the 3600 also used a DEC PDP-11.
>
>             Dennis Degan, Video Editor-Consultant-Knowledge Bank
>                           NBC Today Show, New York
>
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