[QuadList] fun questions for you hardware gurus

[Scott Thomas]

I don't know if I've mentioned this before, but I highly recommend this video:

http://youtu.be/ZTC_RxWN_xo

It's titled "The Secret History of Silicon Valley". Ever wonder why so many tech companies are in the valley?
Lots of interesting bit of info relating to radar, and that is related to instrument and radar data recorders.

On Jan 21, 2013, at 12:57 AM, Don Norwood <dwnorwood at embarqmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
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> Don Norwood
> Digitrak Communications, Inc.
> www.digitrakcom.com

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