[QuadList] From the TR 800 Crypt

[David Crosthwait]

Gary,

I believe that it was the Action machines (TR 800's) that made it to my friends garage, last seen in 1986.

David






On Feb 24, 2011, at 12:22 PM, Gary Adams wrote:

> Thanks for jogging my memory Phil.  I should have known it was you but my memory is showing my age.   I too worked a short time in this “audit” room.  Along with John Nash, Nigel Stoddard (now in Buenos Aires) and the rest of the group from Jersey Isle.  We indeed did fix the infant mortality issues by cycling the machines for 100 hours in all modes.  Unfortunately, this took the best 100 hours off the heads and guide except for the first few I guess.  But the customer did get a better machine because of it.  But we all knew time was running out in general for RCA.  Most of us were contract workers.  I still have all the manuals for those machines tucked away in California somewhere waiting for a better home.  I would guess the best of those machines ended up at Action Video in LA where Dave Tosch (former RCA) made them work quite well in post production.  I never ran into any others.   There are lots of war stories but left for a different thread or group if necessary.  Gary
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> From: quadlist-bounces at quadvideotapegroup.com [mailto:quadlist-bounces at quadvideotapegroup.com] On Behalf Of Phillip G. Shaw
> Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 12:08 AM
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> Subject: [QuadList] From the TR 800 Crypt
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> [Quote]The first TR 800's I saw were in the QV remote truck. But the problems with reliability were so bad that RCA assigned an engineer during one remote in Vegas who did nothing but sit by the VTR door and waited for one of us to yell "help, we have a runaway!".[/quote]
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> I was that Engineer in Vegas &  Denver Mile high  The problem was that RCA had a bunch of Post Production (film type) =======
>  
> Phillip G. Shaw
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