[QuadList] Ampex Readout--and where Googling for copies led...

[Ted Langdell]

Hey, Randy, 

Happy to help!  Enjoyed the reading... and am looking forward to the next items you scan : )

Breaking things like this up into parts is helpful.

Anything under 1MB sails through without getting held up for a review. That's so the list doesn't pass items that could cause problems for some people's mailboxes.

Anyone with Ampex "Readout" or other Ampex publications is welcome to post or send PDFs for posting on quadvideotapegroup.com website.

My googling for "Ampex Readout" turned up a connection to the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project, where QuadList members Ken Zin and Dennis Wingo are minding Ampex FR-900 transverse scan data recorders that are churning out images of the moon recorded in the late 1960s.

The original PDF and scans are here: http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/ampex/readout/196704/

There's some interesting stuff about transverse heads, storing computer tape.

That let to a link re: Ampex's use of vacuum columns for digital tape recorders... in the 1960 TM-1 data handler :)  Predates the AVR-1 by a bit.

And for computer-interest folks (Ed Sharpe, are you reading??) there are PDFs and software from all kinds of computer systems:  http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/

Back to work... :)

Ted

Ted Langdell
Secretary
Skype: 	TedLangdell
e-mail:	ted at quadvideotapegroup.com


On May 6, 2013, at 12:17 PM, Randy Hall wrote:

> 
> Thanks Ted
> Randy
> 
> 
> On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Ted Langdell <ted at quadvideotapegroup.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Some West Coast lunchtime reading from Randy Hall, K7AGE, the Jan. 1969 edition of Ampex Readout. It's Volume 8-Number 2. 
> 
> I've broken it up to keep it from being a mailbox problem for some.
> This first part has lots of VR-2000s and Ampex backpack cameras and VR-3000s featured.
> 
> Here's what's ahead:
> 
> Ampex Readout-Vol8-No2-Part1-1968 Conventions.pdf							1.6MB
> Ampex Readout-Vol8-No2-Part2-1968 Summer Olmpics.pdf						1.8MB
> Ampex Readout-Vol8-No2-Part3-Germany ARD & ZDF networks.pdf				1.5MB
> 
> This is part 1 of 3:  Ampex Readout-Vol8-No2-Part1-1968 Conventions.pdf
> 
> 
> 
> Randy wrote: 
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Digging through my garage this weekend I found this 1969 AMPEX READOUT booklet describing the Conventions, Mexico Olympics and other topics.
>> 
>> I have a couple other things to scan over the next couple of days.
>> 
>> Enjoy
>> 
>> Randy, K7AGE
> 
> Randy was with GVG 1976-1998, and handled GV switcher support at the Lake Placid Olympics.
> 
> I'll post the other two parts later today.
> 
> Cheers!
> 


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