[BC] ACR-25 and TCR-100 quad cart machines

[Fred Gleason]

On Thursday 27 October 2005 14:45, Davis, Jack L. (KTXL) wrote:
> Both of them could be a bit dangerous to poke your fingers into, lots of
> sudden rapid movement. ?Every maintenance engineer that ever worked on a
> TCR-100 learned the hard way NOT to shine a flashlight into the back. ?It
> would trip the tape photocells and cause the reel servo to rip the tape off
> the one of the reels. ?The "tractor" belt on the TCR-100 was very powerful
> and could do some real damage if you got something caught in it!

Hmm.  I think I prefer video codecs and hard drives...  :)

Cheers!


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