<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>When I worked at WFTX-TV, in 1990, we had a CMX Edge with a massive 50 event memory! There were a few problems though.</div><div><br></div><div>We didn't have any way to save EDLs. No floppy or tape drive.</div><div>Once the 50 event memory was full, it would start erasing the oldest events.</div><div>We would carefully write down on paper all of the time-codes to have something to go back to later.</div><div>The ballistics of the more modern Betacam SP and Oxide machines were sometimes too much for the edge to handle.</div><div>(The photos of the system on the manual showed it working with BVU-200s)</div><div><br></div><div>Sadly, the VR-1200s were already gone when I arrived there, but the ruts across the epoxy studio floor from when they were rolled out are probably still there. :)</div><div><br></div><div>Scott Thomas </div><br><div><div>On Jul 24, 2009, at 11:16 PM, <a href="mailto:W4wj@aol.com">W4wj@aol.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"> <div style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 14pt" id="role_body" bottommargin="7" leftmargin="7" rightmargin="7" topmargin="7"><font id="role_document" color="#000000" size="4" face="Tahoma"> <div><font size="4">Hi Park...</font></div> <div><font size="4"></font> </div> <div><font size="4">Ouch!! That would certainly get old!!</font></div> <div><font size="4"></font> </div> <div><font size="4">Our EDM-1 system could do an auto assemble of as many lines as you</font></div> <div><font size="4">had on your EDL... We did a lot of station promos from templates</font></div> <div><font size="4">that we saved to floppy!! ;-)</font></div> <div><font size="4"></font> </div> <div><font size="4">Don Murray</font></div> <div><font size="4">Retired from 40 years in Miami Television</font></div> <div><font size="4">35+ years at WTVJ NBC O&O</font></div> <div><font size="4"></font> </div> </font></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>