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Does anybody know where any of these are?
I read in an old thread here that the Ampex museum had one but that place has closed.
I could be imagining this but I think I saw a bit of one in a photo of the inside of the Chicago Playboy mansion. |
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I'll bet they sold at least 6 of those!
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THAT is a cool piece of equipment! Color TV, tuner, amp, turntable, open reel audio and video recorders. A technician could have had a full-time job just maintaining a couple of those in the 1960's.
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Here's the only link I could find on this thing:
http://www.cedmagic.com/history/ampex-signature-v.html With a 30k pricetag, I never thought there were any around today. Since it is made up of off-the shelf electronics, I guess you could build your own for under 30K-and what a deal it would be! |
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The inflation calculator says that 30,000 in 1963 is 213,736.27 today.
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Damn, that thing's bigger than that Fisher console I spied on the estate sales list a little bit ago: http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/sho...d.php?t=313562
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It appears that the VTR sits down inside the cabinet, which constrains it to only using the 8" reels, and not the 11.5" reels that overhang the sides of the machine considerably. pix 1
jr Last edited by jr_tech; 08-21-2010 at 10:34 PM. |
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I think I read somewhere on the net in the past 4 of them were made and only one was sold.
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Where did you get your Ampex? Do you know who used it when it was new? Do you have old programs on it's tapes? Thanks, John |
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The few tapes that I got with the machine had been erased. I recorded "The Day the Earth Stood Still" on one tape... Before DVDs, it was a great way to demo vintage TVs without the normal VCR "flagging". jr |
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I just picked up a couple of similar mid sixties Ampex's. Large 5-in helical scan headwheel & offset reel heights. They have a solid Made-in-USA quality. |
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Back around 1980, my father acquired a machine that looked a lot like this. Think it was black and white video only. We changed out the rubber belts (old ones went all gooey) but it never did really work. Then we got a VCR and we abandoned effort on this old machine. It got scrapped a couple years later.
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However, if the right reel did clear the side panel, the overhang could make it difficult to operate some of the controls. The good news is that the small 8" reels provide 90 minutes of play time, so perhaps that was deemed "long enough". Quote:
Solid is an understatement... My 660 weighs in at an arm-stretching 95 lbs! jr |
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the model shown in Figure is a helical scan 2" model VR 660. Recorder very rare to find now
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I wish you could operate the machine and show the "Zen" tape or maybe you meant that tape was erased too |
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