[QuadList] From the TR 800 Crypt--Questions seeking answers

[Trevor Brown]

Phillip
Always pleased RCA took on Pete Stanley I
got his old job in VTR maintainence small dept, two people my first  
big break in VTR
TrevorB
UK member

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On 24 Feb 2011, at 19:11, "Phillip G. Shaw" <pshaw at sitestar.net> wrote:

>
> The first TBC was designed by RCA but it had thermal problems. Jim  
> Parker was brilliant (Taught the RCA Advanced Design) but he was  
> Stubborn as Hell.. He refused to handle EE in the traditional manner  
> and the vector Jitter became an unexplainable feature. Jim Parker  
> went on to Panasonic America Research Labs  NJ.. He had a brain  
> amorism and died young or he would have make history. Yes "up  
> right"  Modules like Sony
>
> The Second Shop Order used a Florida designed TBC (Laurie is a name  
> I remember) but I have forgotten the name of the Company. I had left  
> RCA for NBC and was not directly involved with the Gibbsboro  
> facility. I think customers of the First Shop Order got a swap out...
>
> The First shop order Scanner was NOT exchangeable with Sony.. The  
> RCA did not have the tape entrance guides mounted on the scanner  
> Assembly, this was a mistake in my opinion and the Second SO may  
> have used the Sony... The RCA dynamic tracking head was made by  
> Sony...We made one but it erased an Ampex Pal test tape provided by  
> a visiting Australian Broadcast Group...Very Embarrassing
>
>  Ray & some others from RCA involved with Silver Lake went to  
> Odetics. I think they got a deal from RCA . They had a proto type &  
> the glossy prints when RCA Broadcast Closed... He didn't join Sony  
> until the late 80's.. I was at his wedding and he was still with  
> Odetics..I don't remember when he joined Sony Beta Cart. The News  
> Carts were Odetics market...
>
> The Ampex VPR 3 (Zeus) was purchased by NBC News (Shelly was  
> Director) for  the  9th floor editing Suites.  NBC ON- AIR was solid  
> Sony. The VPR-3’s were not handling VITC correctly (CMX Editing) thi 
> s resulted in mis-cueing of ON-AIR playback...  The News Div wanted  
> the VPR-3 gone...Shelly asked me to examine the problem & explain wh 
> y!   The problem was easy to simulate because the VPR on board Edito 
> r was smart enough to rejected bad TC (faked during lockup) and abor 
> ted the Edit, a 1 sec pre-roll was consistently bad, 2 sec was 2 in  
> 10.But the CMX was going into record & Jammed VITC Gen to invalid co 
> de... Bancroft came in and Ampex changed the Software to prevent rec 
> ording bad VITC.. The VPR-3 stayed in NBC
>
> I was in Vegas at Quality video but not at a shot.. That person was  
> most likely Peter Stanley working for RCA Marketing.. He was gone  
> from broadcasting after the changes he made to the Software....I  
> called Peter " The British Ambassador" because he never fixed  
> anything simple, modifying was his style and when you followed him  
> you removed his crap & fixed the original problem.  I was following  
> him in Australia, Camberra, and the CE asked me if I was Like Peter  
> Stanley..I said NO… The Tape Engineer told me later that the CE ran  
> Peter off, something about his Admin-Assist & Peter on his desk
>
> Note: Bob Hurst, RCA training was a Quad Servo Guy.. I was asked to  
> provide the customer Adjustment Setup for the TR-800 in his Class…Af 
> ter the Class he made it clear that he didn’t like my Velocity/Phase 
>  adjustment procedure, one overshoot.. we had a
> informative discussion on TCR/TR600 servo systems and the different  
> ballistics of each
> transport..Bob knew more than me, and he knew it, but we got along  
> good
>
>
> I don’t get all the pictures….to big for my Email account I think
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