<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:tahoma,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div>HI Chris,<br><br>Yes, that machine would have been built in 1975, since to my memory we shipped around 250 machines by NAB 1975. <br><br>We were building and shipping around 30/month. The electronic tape counter was produced in 1976/1977 as I remember.<br><br>Bill Carpenter ( Ampex product manager @ AVR-2 introduction and for many years.)<br></div><div style="font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> "Chill315@aol.com" <Chill315@aol.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> dwnorwood@embarqmail.com; quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b>
Thu, April 22, 2010 6:30:59 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [QuadList] AVR-2 on eBay<br></font><br>
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<div>The serial number is low, 352. It looks like they updated it with the
digital timer. If you will note, it does not have the circuit breaker
kit. One would want to consider a couple of field mod upgrades to it but
it does look in good shape from the photos. It should be in the range
where the design was fairly stable.</div>
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<div>Chris</div></font></div></div>
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