[QuadList] TCR-100 EPIS

[Gary Adams]

Not sure myself but I think the ACR used real LTC time code and possibly
embedded data in the user bits.  But not sure of any of that.  I had a
pretty good tour of the machine at WBBM in Chicago the year of NAB.  That’s
when I determined I wanted one!  That didn’t work so well.

 

Gary

 

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The Ampex equivalent was IDA but I don't remember what the acronym stood
for. I worked at the CBS affiliate in Madison Wis and the lone ACR-25 had
IDA but possibly not from day one. The IDA displayed two lines of text in
the video and was 10 -15 chars each. I don't remember the data entry method
either. Getting old is not good. 

 

The Madison machine also had the Studio Film and Tape Exchange DOM-5
(Diagnostic Online Monitor) to flag errors. The shop was 15 feet from the
ACR and I'd sometimes hear a load error and be in front of the machine
before the computer beeped its error. 

 

Glenn Gundlach (G²)

 

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