[QuadList] Ampex Models

[Gary Adams]

In the early 70s, a friend of mine and I visited WBBM in Chicago.  I was
currently working at a CBS affiliate in Lincoln, NE.  We got a great tour
and spent quite a bit of time with the ACR-25 specialist (wish I knew his
name).  Gave us the great 7.5 second turnaround test.  Very impressive.
Wanted one for our very own as we were making "daily" reels over night to
free up the machines during the day.  We ended up getting to sit in their
news room studio during their local news. They had us sit at two of the news
desks looking like we worked there since it was also part of the set.  We
were pretty scared when they threw a story to the person at the desk next to
ours.  The lights came up and they started their report.  A bit worried we
would have to do one.  Great fun.  It was in the Cronkite era so the CBS
ONOs sort of did the same thing.  

 

I came back to our humble station and pleaded with the Chief Engineer on the
advantages of the ACR.  We ended up buying a demo TCR-100.  I threatened to
quit (being quite juvenile at the time).  In the end I did quit going to
work for RCA working on TCR-100s among other things.  Looking back, either
way was fine, my path would have been quite different if they would have
bought the ACR.  Probably would have been working with David now.  J

 

Gary

 

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