[QuadList] OT: How to move a VPR-80 in a sidecar cabinetwithout a truck or trailer--AVR 2 Next??

[Don Norwood]

Very interesting Bill.  We sold some Magni gear, but only traditional waveform and vector units as I recall.  There were certainly some companies that got a foothold in the industry due to Tek's attitude.  Videotek is another example, although it took them longer to grow into the quality and level of innovation that Magni seemed to acquire right out of the gate. 

Don
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  From: Bill Carpenter 
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  Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 9:55 PM
  Subject: Re: [QuadList] OT: How to move a VPR-80 in a sidecar cabinetwithout a truck or trailer--AVR 2 Next??


  Yes that Barco is a good monitor, I specified it and Barco built it for me. I was trying to get Tek to build it, but all they would offer me was a repackaged Sony TV set. 

  I would not accept this for a Broadcast product from Ampex, and this was years before we started working with Sony on the BetaSP products

  An interesting byproduct of that negotiation was that some folks left Tektronix's and started Magni, and one of the early products was a waveform sampling product that I specified and Tek would not build, since they wanted to PROTECT their monitor products. 

  If I remember correctly it was Victor Kong who was later the top engineer at Magni, and it he was who told me, at Tek, that he understood what I wanted, why it was needed by the Industry, but he could not make it for me. 
  (This may have been the cause that started Magni?)

  So, if things had worked out different, we would have had a Tektronix 9" monitor and a Wave Form sampler instead Barco and the 528.

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