[QuadList] Quads seen working at June, 2012 New England SMPTE Meeting--Link

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what is amazing is how  cheap they  got that great building for  too.   no 
deals like this  here in my town!..  yea  it  is interesting to see it 
progress!

Ed!
 
 
In a message dated 10/3/2012 11:06:57 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
ted at flashscan8.us writes:




(Woonsocket, RI)—More than 80 people—including New York SMPTE Section  
members from NYC and Connecticut—got a chance to see restored Quad VTR's  at 
work as the New England Section of the Society of Broadcast Engineers, SBE  
Chapter 11 and Mass. Broadcasters Assn. took a special trip in June.


They toured the Museum of Broadcast Technology in Woonsocket, Rhode  
Island, with museum co-founder and QuadList member Tom Sprague explaining  repairs 
to the FM section of a TR-70 that allowed it to be playing tape.  Tom also 
told about the late 1970s high-banding of the museum's Ampex  VR-1000HB.


One RCA TR-600 was working next to an idle sibling, an RCA-TPR-10  portable 
Quad was on display, among other machines the museum has. 


A number of cameras were working, enabling a bit of "hands-on," including  
RCA TK-44As that long-time network and now ESPN engineer and MBT's Jay 
Ballard  has been nursing back into operation.  TK-47s were also working.


An RCA film island was also in operation, featuring TP-7 slide and TP-66  
16mm film projectors feeding a TP-55 multiplexer seen by a TK-28B film pickup 
 camera.


Visitors were treated to some meaty material during a light buffet: Video  
and film clips from the late Joe Rozien's collection.  


Those included Editec and VTR enhancement demos from 1958-9, and the  
entire 1959 "Kitchen Debate" captured by an RCA TK-41 and recorded by an Ampex  
VR-1000.


Rozien's home movies of the setup for the Moscow showcase helped show  what 
it took to accomplish that in 1959.


The museum is saving a venerable collection of television gear in an apt  
location: The former Woonsocket Institute for Savings.  The former bank's  
large vault stores the museum's collection of manuals and spare parts.


See pictures and more here: _http://www.smpte-ne.org/lastmeeting.html_ 
(http://www.smpte-ne.org/lastmeeting.html) 


Note that if that link is replaced by the September meeting, you may be  
able to find the page by starting here: 


_http://www.smpte-ne.org/_ (http://www.smpte-ne.org/) 


Fast-forward to the September meeting, which was a presentation of 4K  
Digital Cinematography by Sony.


The next meeting continues to show how far electronic image-making has  
come:  Advanced Video Codecs and DSLR Cinematography.  6:30pm doors  open on 
Oct. 17 at Rule Camera in Boston.


Someone should bring a VR-3000 and PCP-90 for comparison.


Ted


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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