[QuadList] Jeporady Question of the Day--And the answer is RCATR-700

[Don Norwood]

This thread has taken a few turns, and there have been some references to TR-800 machines.  I think this part of the thread is referring to 1" machines, and if so, the model is TH-800 (not TR).  I tried to help find a home for some of those monsters a few years ago.  You can see a couple of pics here:

http://www.digitrakcom.com/Pics/TH800a.jpg

http://www.digitrakcom.com/Pics/TH800b.jpg

Don Norwood
Digitrak Communications, Inc.
www.digitrakcom.com
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Bill Carpenter 
  To: garyada at ix.netcom.com ; Quad List 
  Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 11:21 AM
  Subject: Re: [QuadList] Jeporady Question of the Day--And the answer is RCATR-700


  Hi Folks,

  I believe that they actually delivered some TR-800 machines. I visited a production facility in either Australia or New Zealand in late 82 or the Summer of 83. I think they had major servo problems, and after the VPR-3 was introduced at IBC 82, in Brighton England, they quit working on the machine.
  I know I saw some very sad folks with 3 machines that could not be used for even as playback machines. They asked me about the VPR-3 servos.
  At that time I had not shipped any VPR-3's and I had a 40M$ signed order backlog, and the first machines went to ABC for use in Sarajevo Winter Olympics. 

  Bill Carpenter









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  From: Gary Adams <garyada at ix.netcom.com>
  To: Quad List <quadlist at quadvideotapegroup.com>
  Sent: Wed, February 23, 2011 7:37:33 AM
  Subject: Re: [QuadList] Jeporady Question of the Day--And the answer is RCA TR-700


  With respect to the TR800.  Not exactly sure about the dates but I believe it was initially shown prior to the BVH2000 but it didn’t work very well.  I don’t believe a single circuit is similar to the 2000. I did post final testing (interesting concept) on these in the era that they were “sort of” working which was after the 2000 gained market share.  Even the remote control was RS-422 but not using the Sony (or SMPTE/Ampex) protocol.  Had it actually worked when it was introduced, would have been the best feature set machine on the market.  There were a couple of fine Engineers, like Dave Tosch, who made them work really good.  There were lots of war stories about this but we will leave that to Ted’s Type C Video Tape Group J  Gary



  From: quadlist-bounces at quadvideotapegroup.com [mailto:quadlist-bounces at quadvideotapegroup.com] On Behalf Of C. Park Seward
  Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 3:40 PM
  To: Quad List
  Subject: Re: [QuadList] Jeporady Question of the Day--And the answer is RCA TR-700



  Ha!. Looks like an AVR-3.



  But then their 1" development didn't work out very well either. I knew someone who had an 800 and they said the boards were copies of the Sony 2000.


  Best,

  Park



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