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

[Bill Carpenter]

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
 
C. Park Seward
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