[QuadList] Ampex Picnic 2011--Links to video interviews, photos

[Ted Langdell]

Every year, folks who used to work at Ampex--some retired... some who  
moved on to other companies--gather at Cuesta Park in Mountain View.

QuadList member Tim Stoffel had been attending for a number of years.   
I went last year and posted pix on the Quad Videotape Group Facebook  
page

This year, Tim and I (standing) went, and met up with Old VTR  
collector and historian Richard Diehl (red shirt, seated), who was  
interviewing several people on HD video.

(Tim Stoffel photo)

Click here http://www.youtube.com/user/videolabguy#p/u
for Richard's YouTube page to see interviews with the original Quad  
Head engineer and picnic organizer Fred Pfost (seen here with  wife/co- 
organizer, Joann Pfost)



(Tim Stoffel photo)

  and engineer Ray Vavizza.

(Ted Langdell iPhone photo)

Ravizza had a hand in the developing servo systems for Ampex's  
Electron Beam Recorder for instrumentation (spy plane data, among  
otherthings), the audio section on the AVR-2 and 3, and mechanical  
aspects of Automatic Scan Tracking (AST) for the original Type A  
machines (Ampex VPR-1) and then later the VPR-2 and VPR-3 series.

He later worked on robotics for the Ampex ACR-225 digital spot and  
program R/P system. He's still working... in robotics mechanisms for a  
Bay Area company.

Retired Ampexer Bill Carpenter (AVR-2 & AVR-3 sales among other things)
and Tim Stoffel get caught up, while an AVR-2 audio board rests on  
Bill's food bag.


(Ted Langdell photo/Tim's Canon camera)

We stayed until long after others had left, and then stopped into
the Milpitas FRY's Electronics for a trip around half the store.

No big spending, though. Tim bought something small for his GPS, and I  
grabbed an ice coffee for the 2.5 hour drive home to Marysville, about  
40 minutes north of Sacramento.  Tim had another two hours-over the  
Sierras in the dark to Reno- with a wave at Grass Valley and Nevada  
City folks on the way through.

Ted

Ted Langdell
Secretary

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