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<DIV>The picture on the cover of Broadcast News does show the capstan roller
reversed. It also has an early version of the control panel. The
Control panel has two hour counters on it. There are several knobs missing
that were on the production version. The tape path does not show the tape
counter. The heads were moved around on the pre-production version vs. the
later production units.</DIV>
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<DIV>The control panel wiring was changed after the first 40 production units
were made. I only have the schematics so I have not taken the time to do a
through review for the differences.</DIV>
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<DIV>The pre-production units in the photos have a lot of items in the tape path
that was not in the production version. I cannot tell where the audio
heads are located. If they are close to the capstan then the displacement
would be non-standard. Also the pre-production units do not appear to have
a timer in the tape path.</DIV>
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<DIV>How do you tell if there is a color rack without the seeing of the
rack? If the machine had the solid state proc amp, then look to see if the
color module was installed. Third module from the left. This had the
color burst and phase controls located on it. The top two knobs are the
record phase The left was the course switch. The right was the
fine. These were set in E-E mode. The center know was the playback
phase. The bottom two were the burst and chroma levels. It was also
two slots wide. This was a part of the color kit. </DIV>
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<DIV>Now how did we keep SCH on this machine? Just kidding.</DIV>
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