[QuadList] Happy Fourth Birthday, QuadList--

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Happy B-day Quad List!!!!!
 
Ed!
 
In a message dated 7/25/2012 10:35:01 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
ted at quadvideotapegroup.com writes:

Celebrating four years of Quad Conversations, July 25,  2012

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Just a note that the QuadList celebrates its Fourth Birthday,  today.


It began in the wee hours of Friday, July 25, 2008 in part to alert folks  
to an evening event in Los Angeles that featured four Quad videotapes from 
the  UCLA film and television archive.


The event featured BetacamSP playback of the restored version of the  
oldest color Quad videotape in existence, the WRC-TV/NBC Washington, DC  color 
studio dedication—featuring President Eisenhower...
 
 



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(Eisenhower at WRC-TV/NBC photo by Ted  Langdell)




and the Nixon-Khrushchev debate recorded 
49 years earlier on this date, (July 25) 1959. 






 

(Nixon-Kruschev off-tape photo via Don  Kent)




A Pre-show dinner was also being set up.


I entered the names and e-mails of 13 other people and then sent this  
message:







 
You're on this list because you either: 


•Showed up for the informal event on Tuesday at NAB this year
•You expressed an interest in response to postings on the TIG, AMIA or  Old 
VTR's lists, or 
•I know you have an interest or passion for Quad  video.




The list grew by several subscribers later in the day, a handful more by  
the 29th and now has 138 receiving postings out of 148 in the list.



Our current QuadList membership includes folks with no Quad experience,  
some who have trained themselves to run machines or restore them, others who  
have been editors using Quads on up to to highly experienced engineers with 
45  years or more maintaining what some fondly call "these beasts."



Our members seem to be on all continents except Antarctica, unless I'm  
mistaken thinking we have members on the African continent.


Without checking, I know we have members in the US, Canada, UK, France,  
India, Australia and New Zealand... and I think we have at least one in South  
Africa.


Please pipe up if I've missed your whereabouts (or never knew.)


The Quad Videotape Group—largely through the QuadList—has been able to  
help folks obtain information and assistance in restoring machines to  
operation and keeping them running, and in safely handling older tapes.


In doing so, that has enabled recovery of content, and has passed on  
knowledge about Quad.  


Because of that, there's a greater possibility of recovering the content  
from Quad tapes now sitting on shelves or stacked in dark spaces around the  
world. 


Thank you for being part of this ongoing process.



 
 
 
 
 
Ted



 
 
 
Ted  Langdell







_ted at quadvideotapegroup.com_ (mailto:ted at quadvideotapegroup.com)    
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Secretary for the  _QuadVideotapeGroup.com_ 
(http://www.quadvideotapegroup.com/) : 
Preserving Tape, Equipment and the Knowledge to use them, in  conjunction 
with the Library of  Congress












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