[QuadList] fun questions for you hardware gurus

[Roger Brett]

Great picture, Don!

On 1/21/2013 12:57 AM, Don Norwood wrote:
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> 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 <http://www.digitrakcom.com>
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>     ----- Original Message -----
>     *From:* Dave Sieg <mailto:dave at zfx.com>
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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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