[QuadList] AVR-4

[Bill Carpenter]

Hi Folks,

I have no knowledge of any AVR-4 documentation at AMPEX.

The digital machine was not even a prototype, just the First Full Screen Digital 
Video Recorder Demonstration in the World. ( note: a one head pass segment of a 
"B" format machine, a few lines had been publicly played back to show concept in 
Europe earlier, by John Baldwin) had been built on a AVR-3, since the latest TBC 
cards were built for that machine.
A similar demo was made in Europe @ Montreau, using a AVR-2, and it was a 4FSC 
machine with 1/2 the tape consummation.

We did not use "4" in any product name after a great regional manager, Pat 
Burns, returned from working in Hong Kong, and explained that the number "four" 
meant very bad luck or death in the major Asian languages. 

Note: This caused the entire ESS-4 sales program, to be scrapped, and the 
product was renamed ESS-5, and was successful. This happened in less than a 
month, just before the NAB introduction.

Bill Carpenter






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From: David Crosthwait <david at dcvideo.com>
To: Quad List <quadlist at quadvideotapegroup.com>
Sent: Thu, February 24, 2011 3:14:15 PM
Subject: [QuadList] AVR-4

Attention Don Norwood and Bill Carpenter:

Upon review of a Spare Parts Discontinuance document from Ampex, 1991, there 
were 16 listing for parts for what was itemized as "Quad AVR-4". I'm not 
familiar with that product. Was this the AVR-3 Digital prototype that you (Bill) 
had demonstrated in the 80's, or something else?

Curious to know,

David Crosthwait
DC Video

DAVID at DCVIDEO.COM
WWW.DCVIDEO.COM


      
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