<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>David,</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks much for passing on the first-hand recollection from your source.</div><div><br></div><div>In 2002, Art Schnieder wrote a piece about the NBC Editor's Sync Guide that is on the late Jack Calaway's Editing Museum website, which was preserved by the Wayback Machine at http:archive.org, and is now posted to the vtoldboys.com website.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.vtoldboys.com/editingmuseum/esg.htm">http://www.vtoldboys.com/editingmuseum/esg.htm</a></div><div><br></div><div>There's also a sample of the ESG audio:</div><div><a href="http://www.vtoldboys.com/editingmuseum/Esg8.mp3">http://www.vtoldboys.com/editingmuseum/Esg8.mp3</a></div><div><br></div><div>I'm still amazed at the creativity that was developed in the relatively early period of television... both the artistic creativity in front of the camera, and what was going on technically to make it appear on screens in the studio and at home.</div><div><br></div><div>Jack notes the ESG and other examples of that creativity here:</div><div><a href="http://www.vtoldboys.com/editingmuseum/offline.htm">http://www.vtoldboys.com/editingmuseum/offline.htm</a></div><div><br></div><div>Park Seward now has the CMX Edge package pictured near the bottom of the page. I acquired it from a Sacramento television station. It has an interface and cables for three Sony BVH-1100's and interface for a GVG 1600 (at the bottom of the stack.) One of the two chassis has Sony 5800/5850 interfaces.</div><div><br></div><div>One more item of Creativity... as related by Jack on this webpage:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.trs-80.com/trs80-main-personalstories.htm">http://www.trs-80.com/trs80-main-personalstories.htm</a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; "><a name="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; "><table border="0" width="100%" bgcolor="white" style="position: static; z-index: auto; "><tbody><tr bgcolor="#3399FF"><td colspan="9" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; "><font size="+2" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; "><b><big>Jack L Calaway</big> [<small>jcalaway at ------dot com</small> - 1/12/2007]</b></font></td></tr><tr valign="top" bgcolor="white"><td style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; "><table border="0" width="100%" bgcolor="white" style="position: static; z-index: auto; "><tbody><tr valign="top" bgcolor="white"><td style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; "><table border="0" width="100%" bgcolor="white" style="position: static; z-index: auto; "><tbody><tr valign="top" bgcolor="white"><td style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; ">In the late 70's we developed an automatic video tape duplication system for AME, Inc., Burbank, CA, using a TRS-80.</td></tr><tr valign="top" bgcolor="white"><td style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; "></td></tr><tr valign="top" bgcolor="white"><td style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; ">Their main business was the duplication of commercials for TV broadcast. This is very labor intensive and easily subject to mistakes. The process consists of cueing a video tape, selecting color bars, then a slate, starting the video playing, selecting it then waiting until the end of the commercial, when the operator would select black while re-cueing the tape, and starting the process over again, and again, and ...</td></tr><tr valign="top" bgcolor="white"><td style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; "></td></tr><tr valign="top" bgcolor="white"><td style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; ">So we developed a system that ran on a TRS-80 to do these functions.</td></tr><tr valign="top" bgcolor="white"><td style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; "></td></tr><tr valign="top" bgcolor="white"><td style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; ">The software was written in assembler, and was burned into a prom, which replaced the original basic prom in the TRS-80.</td></tr><tr valign="top" bgcolor="white"><td style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; "></td></tr><tr valign="top" bgcolor="white"><td style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; ">We repainted the buttons, and gave them new labels to ease the operators job.</td></tr><tr valign="top" bgcolor="white"><td style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; "></td></tr><tr valign="top" bgcolor="white"><td style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; ">We used the printer port to control the video switcher, and the serial port to control an CMX I2 (Intelligent interface) which was connected to an Ampex VR-2000 (used prices in those days of about $50,000).</td></tr><tr valign="top" bgcolor="white"><td style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; "></td></tr><tr valign="top" bgcolor="white"><td style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; ">We also added a TV sync. separator to the TRS-80 to regulate the system timing.</td></tr><tr valign="top" bgcolor="white"><td style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; "></td></tr><tr valign="top" bgcolor="white"><td style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; ">This system was used so heavily, that from time to time the internal flat cable between the TRS-80 keyboard and the mother board would break.</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></a></span></div><div>Cheers from Nashua, NH.</div><div>Pittsburgh next week.</div><div>In NYC on Feb. 5.</div><div><br></div><div>Ted</div><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; 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