[QuadList] Quad mystery photo quiz of the week

[David Crosthwait]

Just a clarification for those who don't know Ken or me: This is me in front of the machine. If Ken had been by the VTR at the time of the photo, I would have dragged him in and shaken his hand! 

Ken deserves extra credit for this magnificent restoration and I am sure he was proud of his part of the Merlin exhibit.

David


On Apr 14, 2012, at 10:52 PM, COURYHOUSE at aol.com wrote:

> whereabouts unknown??  how  sad....
>  
> what a task to restore this it must have been...
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> Ed#
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> In a message dated 4/14/2012 10:45:21 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, david at dcvideo.com writes:
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> <VR1KMerlin-1.jpeg>
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> 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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> Best Regards,
> 
> David Crosthwait
> DC Video
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> On Apr 14, 2012, at 7:33 PM, Tony Quinn wrote:
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>> 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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