[QuadList] Busby

[W4wj at aol.com]

Bill...
 
As you may remember, we had 5 of the AVR-3s at  WTVJ.
 
That was a sweet little machine.  I did  machine-to-machine
and EDM-1 controlled editing with our set-up.
 
Very nice package... Nice profile...
 
QUICK STORY:  When it came time to trade the AVR-3s  back
to AMPEX for some 2B's...  A C.E. from a station in  Mississippi
came to look at the machines he was going to be getting  from
AMPEX after they went in for refurb.  The machines were  in
like new condition, but he wanted what he was paying  for.
 
So he took serial numbers and checked each machine over and 
then wanted a demo.  He asked me to record some bars and  play
them right back.  So that was easy.
 
I did a short record then rewound the tape and punched  play.
A quick lock (usually a bit over 2 seconds) and the bars  looked 
real good on the machines 15" TEK monitor.
 
He said, "I'd like to look at the machine output, not the  input!"
 
I told him that was the machine out and proved it by  tapping
on the tape a bit to cause a very minimal amount of video  grivit!!
 
He was a happy camper!!
 
 
73,

Don Murray, W4WJ
Fredericksburg,  Texas

Retired from 40 years in Miami TV
35+ years at NBC O&O WTVJ  

 
In a message dated 3/1/2010 2:25:08 P.M. Central Standard Time,  
wcarpen107 at yahoo.com writes:

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

--- On  Mon, 3/1/10, georgenann at aol.com <georgenann at aol.com>  wrote:


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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