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05-27-2009, 08:15 PM
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Before we all wax nostalgic about quad, recall the ACR quad cart players. A fiendish combination of a mechanical storage wheel, sliding claw, vacuum to suck the tape up over the optical audio reader and speeding tape heads, all driven by primitive 1970's electronic "computers". A more unreliable piece of shit I had never worked on before, nor since. If one ran a complete shift it was a major feckin miracle.
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05-28-2009, 01:30 AM
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Here are two links that show life at a UHF station when quad was king. Boy I remember going into breaks hoping the ACR25 would make it though 8 spots without crapping out. The station I worked for had two and one was always having problems. The worst idea was when they wanted to record all the news stories on the ACR for playback. They said we had two ACRs so it should be easy well try it when one is down for the count...and all the stories and commercials all need to play on one machine. Anyway I always thought quad had a great picture I may have been the only one that hated to see those decks get replaced by VPR2’s. Anybody remember the first Ampex slowmo disk recorder. I can’t remember the model number they had one but it was very rarely used when I was there it was easier just to use one of the VPR2's with dynamic tracking.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAp1Q7BTUxQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JAWv...eature=related
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