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[David Crosthwait]

We have three VR 660's here, all with 525 drums installed plus a 625 drum on the shelf. One machine is available on line for transfers. The problem at this late stage of the VR 660 time line is the surviving tape stock. With such a slow speed of travel across the large scanner, any surface deformity translate into a sea of RF irregularities, hence picture impairment. I posted some frame grabs over a year ago from a VR 660 recovery project with source tapes from both Alaska and Canada. As far as bandwidth and S/N is concerned, it can look very good whether it be color or black & white. But any tapes that are known to wrinkle i.e. Scotch 399 for example are destined for recovery trouble. 

Compact Video Systems used to use these on some of their green-screen composites in the 70's during "Invisible Man" productions.

Best Regards,

David Crosthwait
DC Video
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On Feb 5, 2012, at 10:10 PM, Steve Spears wrote:

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> The only way that two inch helical ever worked really nice was with the machine in Japan that "Takaiangi" designed when he was at Japan Victor. He was Japan's version of Charlie Ginsburg (Ampex) and that machine had a two head arrangement with a drum about 12 inches in diameter. NHK had some when I got a tour through the brand new Broadcast Center in Tokyo in 1966. Steve Spears, Orrs Island, Maine.
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>> On Feb 5, 2012, at 4:16 PM, Chill315 at aol.com wrote:
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>>> Interesting machine but not a quad.
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>> At Wayne State U. we had two 660's. Used them for noncritical stuff and one-offs, and as a backup player for campus closed circuit feeds when the quads were otherwise occupied. We also used one on a few football games (late 60's I think) to be the first local team to do "instant replay." Our CE decided that we might get our game carrier, channel 56, in FCC trouble with unstable sync so it only lasted a couple of Saturday afternoons.
>> I also recall one of our engineers came up with the "latex tension servo assistant," a rubber band on a post somewhere in the tape path that damped tape stuttering on its way into or out of that big scanner drum.
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