[QuadList] fun questions for you hardware gurus

[Don Norwood]

Hi Dave:

In the useless trivia department, Ampex used this style switch on the instrumentation recorders before they used it on the video decks.  The VR-1100 was the first quad transport to use them but the first video machine to use them was the VR-8000 2" helical.  However, they had already been in use on instrumentation decks.  Here's a picture of a transport control for an FR-600 that I had and it predates the video decks.  There seemed to be a lot of technology and design sharing within the company, but many video folks don't know much about other Ampex products.  A similar situation existed at RCA, and both companies had government contracts for specialized products that were often far more sophisticated than what we saw in the television business.



Don Norwood
Digitrak Communications, Inc.
www.digitrakcom.com
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  From: Dave Sieg 


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  You are very close on the push-buttons, they were from a remote panel for a FR-80
  instrumentation recorder, but are essentially the same ones they put on the VR-1200
  and 2000.  Except "Play" became "Reproduce" for the NASA crowd.

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