[QuadList] Ampex VR 420 1/2" VTR/Editor **Vintage/Collectible**

[Bill Carpenter]

Hi Folks,
Yes, it was built by Toshiba, and is a good machine.

I believe we were still in our joint marketing agreement with Toshiba and we owned 49% of the Japanese company known as Toamco, which allowed us to sell equipment into Japan ( mainly quads). 

They would have also built the Instavideo product for us, if it ever was marketed.
I have used this machine many times, we had a loaner in our dept, just for occasional uses.

Bye for now, love to all, Bill Carpenter


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 From: Scott Thomas <scottgfx at mac.com>
To: "tim at lionlamb.us" <tim at lionlamb.us>; Quad List <quadlist at quadvideotapegroup.com> 
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 1:14 AM
Subject: Re: [QuadList] Ampex VR 420 1/2" VTR/Editor **Vintage/Collectible**
 



I'm not sure if the image will come through, but the label appears to say "Toshiba Ampex".

I did want to express my dislike of those 8-pin monitor connectors though. Didn't realize they went back that far.


On Sep 27, 2012, at 1:34 AM, Tim Stoffel <tim at lionlamb.us> wrote:

> 
> Someone here should grab this machine (I can't now. 24 hours ago, I
> could have :-(  ). It is a real collectible. Essentially an EIAJ machine
> with stereo audio. Looks to me like it was made by Panasonic for Ampex.
> 
> Tim Stoffel
> 
> --
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2012-09-26 at 15:48 -0400, chill315 at aol.com wrote:
>> 
>> I never saw anything like this from Ampex.  Does anyone have
>> information on this unit?
>> 
>> 
>> Chris Hill
>> 
>> 

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