[BC] indentifying the equipment

[Richard Rudman]

The first new studios I built were at Northeastern University in Boston in 1965 for WNEU (carrier current) during my junior year. The Northeastern Student Union budget we were allotted was meager. We bought Spotmasters (the ones Glen talked about) for the main studio and production room. They worked out well, all things considered. Spotmaster was a good low cost / low budget solution. Simple electronics and simple mechanical design. Not bad for college students to operate and maintain. When I started at WBZ the rack mounted RCA machines were a bear to clean properly, and you had to take them out of the rack to do alignment. Spotmasters? It was all there on the desktop, back when desktops were really desk tops.

Richard

On Nov 23, 2010, at 5:44 AM, Dana Puopolo wrote:

> Rapid Q. Pure junk...
> 
> I'd also nominate Ampro-but I think they are also RCA.
> 
> Now OTOH, I had some little Beaucart machines and they ran forever. They would
> also pull up the pinch roller without a cart in, which was real handy for
> cleaning.
> 
> -D