[QuadList] story and introduction: AVR-1 tape shredding

[Guy Spiller]

This story brings to mind the experience I had with the one AVR-1 we had 
at the PBS station where I worked way back when.
We had purchased three 1200s and a 2000 in '69, then they bought this 
AVR-1 around '74 or so, from "somewhere"...I don't remember it being a 
new machine.
It would occasionally do exactly what Bill described, spontaneously 
turning one tape into two, and we could find no obvious reason for it 
either.  It got to the point that no one would put a valuable tape on 
it,  so it just sat there looking pretty.  I left the station in '76 to 
start my own company and have no idea what they eventually did with it.
Guy

William R. Short wrote:
>
> It never occurred to me that a servo might have gone haywire until 
> reading some of the discussion here.  I always thought my experience 
> was an anomaly, and that AVR-1's were very gentle on tape until I read 
> the comments here.
>
> Best regards,
> Bill Short
>
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