[QuadList] OT Professor Takayanagi, JVC

[Grace McKay]

I believe that marketing material hangs on the wall in the JVC training 
center in Cypress.

Grace McKay

On 2/6/2012 8:50 AM, Steve Spears wrote:
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> The photo #1 was the broadcast machine in the mid-60's.  There's 
> another beautiful color photo out there (somewhere) with Takayanagi 
> standing beside the original machine. It was in a Victor promotional 
> color brochure that told all about the company and their products back 
> then.
> I appologize for my spelling "Takaianagi"...I was applying my old 
> Japanese vowel sounds when I was spelling it.
> I met him at Kokura down on Kyushu when he was touring all the Victor 
> service centers, what a fantastic fellow. Just the greatest. I was 
> stationed at the Japanese Self Defense Air Station at nearby Ashiya, 
> at our Navy Radar Bomb Scoring unit MSQ-44 65-67.
>
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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.
>
>     Steve,  would these have been the JVC KV-1 or KV-2 VTR's shown
>     here on LabGuy's World?
>     http://www.labguysworld.com/KV-1_001.jpg
>     http://www.labguysworld.com/KV-2_002.jpg
>     http://www.labguysworld.com/MS_KV-2_001.jpg
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>     Click this link for more on Professor Kenjiro Takayanagi.
>     http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestones:Development_of_Electronic_Television,_1924-1941
>
>     Nothing re: the 2", double-head machine Steve mentions, though.
>
>     Professor Takayanagi passed away in July, 1990 at the age of 91
>     <http://www.nytimes.com/1990/07/25/obituaries/kenjiro-takayanagi-electrical-engineer-91.html>.
>
>     There's a rather detailed history of JVC, and Takayanagi's
>     relationships to the company, here:
>     http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/Victor-Company-of-Japan-Limited-Company-History.html
>
>     The morphing over time from a wholly-owned division of the Victor
>     Talking Machine Co., and shortly thereafter RCA... into what today
>     is a company with a slight majority owned by Matsushita
>     (Panasonic's parent) makes an interesting read.
>
>     The development of JVC's "Video Home System" (VHS) and his
>     connection to it is also described.
>
>     Ted
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>     Ted Langdell
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