[QuadList] Quad mystery photo quiz of the week

[David Crosthwait]

The mystery photo of the week was taken exactly 30 years ago (+/- a few days). At NAB Vegas 1982, Ken Zin proudly displayed a rebuilt, mint condition VR-1000 VTR at the Merlin booth. Ken had assembled this machine from VR-1000 A, B, and C machines. It was running and fully operational on the show room floor. It is my understanding that after NAB, this machine was loaded onto a truck for a trip to The Smithsonian but it was subjected to severe damage while in transit. It's whereabouts are unknown. 

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David Crosthwait
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On Apr 14, 2012, at 7:33 PM, Tony Quinn wrote:

> In message <F6BA545D-47E5-411B-B6AE-ACB4DF59A089 at dcvideo.com>, David Crosthwait <david at dcvideo.com> writes
>> Hi Bill,
>> 
>> That's an interesting Compact Video story about that VR-3000/VR-1000
>> setup. Wish I could have seen it. Unfortunately that is not the machine
>> in the picture. The answer is coming tonight. It does remind me of a
>> story I was told last weekend over dinner by a friend who used to work
>> at WJZ channel 13 in Baltimore. He told me they had a tape delay rig
>> that recorded on a VR-1000 flat top feeding tape vertically to a
>> VR-1200. I would have loved to have seen that in operation!
> 
> Well before my time, but
> 
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