[BC] Another automation quesiton

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Hey Dennis,

Bob is still around, having moved back to the Chicago suburbs about 6 years ago.  He still does the tech support out of his house for the full Systemation line, and the LPB SALSA systems http://home.wideopenwest.com/~bobwille/qd_set_frames.htm

Absolutely a true gentleman and a pleasure to work with.

Systemation did the Commodore 64 thing with the Nakamichi decks, then with Pioneer decks, then with Pioneer CDs and DOS.  When LPB bought them we moved it to a new GUI and worked up a Windows version.  We even had one running 4 individual stations (AC, Jazz, Pop, Country) from a single box with lots of cards... 

Steve ran Systemation out of the basement of WDZ/WDZQ and from his giant Mercedes motor home.  He had a great sales technique - pull up in that at a station, bring the owner out, sit him in the massage chair with a big drink and run the demo on monitors and a killer sound system... he sold a lot of them ;)

John
 
>>> "KKTY" <kkty at netcommander.com> 04/23/08 12:37 AM >>> 
Ohhhhh.... mercy! We had one of those at KAML-FM in Gillette, WY in about 
'89. It replaced a BE-16 reel/carousel system.

14 Nakamichi cassette decks full of commercials...impossible to traffic the 
thing, because the decks all had to rewind/search at normal fast fwd/reverse 
speeds to cue up. We were always getting the computer's tone bursts on the 
air, similar to EAS tones. It was an absolute nightmare, and we were waaay 
glad to update to Systemation's hard disk system when it came out.

Systemation operated out of the basement of WDZ/WDZQ in Decatur, IL. I flew 
back for a weekend-long lesson on how to use the thing. Bob Willey was the 
tech/teacher, and a true gentleman. He was always a pleasure to work with, 
in person and on the phone.

Dennis Switzer
KKTY AM/FM
Douglas, WY


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Craig Bowman"
Subject: Re: [BC] Another automation quesiton


> Systemation was using a Commodore 64 and cassettes in the early 80's.
> The programming was on a game cartridge.
>
> Craig Bowman
>

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