[QuadList] Busby

Mon Mar 1 14:48:07 CST 2010

Bill,

Thank you so much for the info on Mr. Busby.  Small world. It has been many years since I have seen him.  I was at many of the Ampex classes and met him there, he is quite a guy.  I think I remember that he designed the whole logic bay for the ACR's in about one weekend. If not a weekend some short period of time. I wish I could understand it in that short period of time.

Would you happen to know how my old friend Cecil Brown is doing?  He was a good friend also.  On one of his trips to NYC he came up here to Port Jervis (It was just summer place at the time) to go canoeing on the Delaware River with me. He loves canoeing.  He was all set, new camera and all, but we dumped going over some rapids about half way down. I fished him out and we finished the trip, no complaints from Cecil, he still had a good time.

I have spoken with Lou Bitton recently, he is in Placerville.

Lou tells me that Branson bought Ampex.  Even the Queen was there to inspect it.  I was there last year and had time to kill so the wife and I drove around RC and found the buildings and the sign is still there on Rt. 101.  Such a shame it is gone, it would surely boost our GNP.

Sorry, I never came in contact with an AVR-3, I did see one while visiting old buddy at WTVJ.  He told me it was quite a machine.  I liked the pilot carrier idea.

Thanks again Bill.

73,

George Keller

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Carpenter <wcarpen107 at yahoo.com>
To: Quad List <quadlist at quadvideotapegroup.com>
Sent: Mon, Mar 1, 2010 3:24 pm
Subject: Re: [QuadList] Busby

I saw Stan Busby, about three months ago, at a Lunch for Old Ampex Folks @ Bill McSweeny's place, The Duke of Edinburgh in Cupertino, CA and he is well, some health problems, he can't drive a car (eye problems), so he has an electric bike, but he can still have a drink, tell a good story or a great joke, and functions very well.

The article that you came up with was a result of something I started and Stan wrote the article, after we got it going.

In the late 70's, when I was the AVR-3 product manager, I addressed the product tech training class and went to lunch with the group. I sat next to an Engineer, Bill Smith of KTLA, one of two Chief Engineers, and we became great friends, and still are today.

The lunch discussion got around to the fact that we built the AVR-3 Editor w/ a removable control panel, and had planned to make editing system with a simple combiner to allow very  simple, but precise editing from a control sation w/three panels removed from the machines and the forth panel providing the combining functions. 

This had been comceptualized, but with the retrofit problems and the acceptance of the Helical scan 1" products, we realized that this product would not pay for the design effort.

Bill asked if there were enough signals available at external connectors to build an editor.I got in touch with Stan, we had a long lunch, Bill explained what he wanted for KTLA, and many bar napkins later, the conceptual design was complete.

Bill called me at the end of the day, and asked for a "D" sized piece of paper to creat a big schematic from the stack of bar napkins.

A couple of days later,at another bar meeting, arranged by me, Stan reviewed the design, made some minor changes, to make it simpler (to use more that was built into the machines) and Bill went back to LA to get it built.

A few months later, after a call from Bill, Stan went to KTLA (he was down there for a SMPTE meeting) and saw the first test of the new edit controller. It worked well, a couple minor changes/improvements and KTLA had a great editor for building Promo's.

This editor was used for many years, and the AVR-3's were the last quads running a KLTA, other than the ACR's, since this editing sytem was fast,simple, precise and easy to use.

Stan was one of my mentors at Ampex, and I could always go to him and get a very good answer, on related any question, that I could understand.

Bye, Bill Carpenter

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From: georgenann at aol.com <georgenann at aol.com>
Subject: [QuadList] Busby
To: quadlist at quadvideotapegroup.com
Date: Monday, March 1, 2010, 8:22 AM

Came across this, thought you guys might be interested in it. I don't know how the reactance chart wound up on the same file.

It has been many years since I saw Stan, wonder if anyone has the latest info on him.

DE,

George Keller

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