[QuadList] Early CMX Documentation

[Dennis Degan]

>          I offered:
>
>     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.

		On Feb 20, 2010, at 10:00 PM, Guy Spiller wrote:

 > 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.

		I reply:

	I can't remember, Guy.  32 years is a long time.  I see an illuminated 
audio meter above the vectorscope, but that's a guess.  Other than 
that, I can't tell.

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