[QuadList] OT Professor Takayanagi, JVC

[Trevor]

I used to work on the VR660 ( not that they ever went wrong)

But the large drum size meant it took time to cycle out of long insert edit
(Ie with post erase running)

Seven seconds if I remember correctly, not really production access

Also the dropout compensator was and external box that needed trigger pulses
routing to it.

 

It was a lot more reliable than the 7800, 5103, series of machines 

 

When I went into broadcast and got "you know all about VT and 2" machines"
(I may have overstated what I worked on at the interview) can you go around
the corner and fix one, round the corner were

2 TR70's  4 TR70b's a TR50, and later TR600's and TC100

I survived and newer returned to fixing camera's (I hated that, loved VT)

 

I moved onto ops, and then VT editing, all because I mentioned at Interview
I had worked on 2"VT, so never put the VR660 down, it was a big leg up in
life for me, and an escape from Camera maintenance (Marconi mk VII at that
time)

 

TrevorB

UK Member

 

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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