[QuadList] Quad Carts--Links to RCA and Ampex photo examples

[Scott Thomas]

The Panasonic system with the M-II decks was called a MARC II.

I saw one on a visit to WFLA-TV in the late 1980's. There were engineers from Panasonic there, rather late, trying to get the system to talk to the station's Utah Scientific automation. They were still using a TCR-100 for playback, and had a second TCR for backup. (This is the one I saw that had EPIS)

MARC II used an X-Y parallelogram arm.

There was an earlier MARC system was based on the original M-Format. I remember seeing a brochure for it, but I don't remember how it worked. I remember seeing pictures with either the tapes or the transports in pull-out drawers. Were these ever installed anywhere?

Scott Thomas

On Aug 17, 2012, at 11:38 AM, Dennis Degan wrote:

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> 		On Aug 16, 2012, at 9:46 PM, David Crosthwait wrote:
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> > One interesting note that I've said in the past on this list: As far as I am aware, NBC New York and Burbank were the only operations to air prime time commercials directly from a cart machine. I am fairly certain that CBS and ABC integrated their commercials into slugs in the air master being played back, but I stand to be corrected.
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> 	This was true for the TCR/ACR era, but when CBS updated their ACR-25s to digital machines (I think they were ACR-225's), I'd heard that the digital carts were used directly on-air.
> 	I was not present at NBC NY from 1979 to 2003, so I don't know what they did after the TCR-100's.  I believe they had Panasonic cart machines using MII VTR's, whatever it may have been called.  I had also heard that NBC had Sony Betacart machines.  Whether any of these were used directly on air or not is unknown to me.
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> 			Dennis Degan, Video Editor-Consultant-Knowledge Bank
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