[QuadList] Ampex Models

[Wayne Watson]

I would love to. I helped take care of one in Edmonton Canada in the seventies. We only had one and went direct to air (no day tape) It was very reliable. One of the other stations in town had a TCR and we teased them. A third station had an ACR but made a day tape with it.
I do suspect quadlist people would be the only ones impressed and it would be a great deal of work for someone.   My favorite show off move was to "abort" in the middle of both transports reloading (including in the middle of a thread) I can almost hear that sound again. I can bring the spare carousel encoder disk.
When our unit did its one millionth cycle I brought a cake and we had a party. I kept that cassette and I think I have it somewhere. I had to tape of the edge connector for the pin feeding the counter the night before or 1,000,000 would have happened in the middle of the night. By doing that I had it happen at lunch time so more people could be there. No one ever knew that.

Wayne Watson


From: quadlist-bounces at quadvideotapegroup.com [mailto:quadlist-bounces at quadvideotapegroup.com] On Behalf Of David Crosthwait
Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 10:40 AM
To: garyada at ix.netcom.com; Quad List
Subject: Re: [QuadList] Ampex Models

In my opinion, there is nothing quite impressive than watching a station break with back-to-back 10 second promos being played on A, then B playing while A ejects, threads up, and almost immediately plays A again when B is done, etc. This theoretically can occur to a carousel full (24) of 10 second spots if the ACR is told to do so. Of course, in this mode, the spots have to be rewound or cued up later, but that's not a problem. It is a flawless transition from deck A to B and back to A again etc.

How many on this list would be willing to see such an ACR 25 procedure in the year 2011? Would anyone except us be impressed?

After I left KCOP for NBC (goodbye ACR, hello TCR), it was just a memory.

David






On Mar 1, 2011, at 9:03 AM, Gary Adams wrote:


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.  :)

Gary

From: quadlist-bounces at quadvideotapegroup.com<mailto:quadlist-bounces at quadvideotapegroup.com> [mailto:quadlist-bounces at quadvideotapegroup.com] On Behalf Of David Crosthwait
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