[QuadList] QuadList Digest, Vol 32, Issue 12

[rabruner at aol.com]

In the 1980s, Bell & Howell - Columbia - Paramount (Later Rank Video Systems USA) in Northbrook, IL, had a contract to dub material to U-matic for AFRTS.  They were recorded on special blue shell cassettes that were re-cycled back to BHCP for testing and re-use.  They had about 500 machines set up to deal with this.  There was also some government recording done on 8mm hi-8 tape, but I am not sure what the eventual destination of these was.
Bob Bruner
W9TAJ




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Bill Carpenter <wcarpen107 at yahoo.com>

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Subject:
Re: [QuadList] Super Bowl I Videotape-Could an Armed Forces Networkbicycle tape be in some dark warehouse?

Date:
Sun, 6 Feb 2011 15:13:15 -0800 (PST)



Hi Park & Everybody,

Early in 1986, I was at a TV conference in Hamburg, Germany, which was on a Friday and Saturday, and I was presenting on Saturday afternoon.
That evening over good Italian Food, my local salesman Lutz Mulller, told me that we should have a good drive back to Franfurt on Sunday morning. 
I told him I wanted to get back in time to watch the Chicago Bears in the Super Bowl at the hotel which had an AFRTS feed. 
Well, light blowing snow, good high speed snow tires on MB and we cruised back at 120MPH.
The game came on at 10:30 PM locally and I fell asleep in the first Quarter and woke up at the end during the Celebration.
BYTW, I helped make a pitch in LA, to sell VPR-3's, to the AFRTS center in 84, and after the 30 minute presentation in the CE's office we saw some paper charts showing they were buying Sony, so during the conversation I asked what they were doing with their AVR-1's and they said that nobody wanted them, so they were to be scrapped. 

I made one phone call to our office in Bethesday, caught the Regional Manager, Frank Rush, discussed a Trade-In program he had used, he said he would contact the right person in the Pentagon, and have him call the CE in the morning. 
We sold 15 fully loaded VPR-3's from those phone calls.
In the 90's they also bought ACR-225's for some places in Europe, and Italy was the first of 5 units.

Bill Carpenter





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