By: Elaine Mills

Elaine Mills — Mon, 09 Oct 2017 10:25:11 +0000

I worked at BTQ7 Eng. during that era: Can’t comment on your interesting-read Blog as I don’t have a URL. Would like to contact someone who commented on your Management blog entry; he was the Asst. Chief Eng. at BTQ7 during that era.. They were wonderful times and very hands-on before computors, automation etc.

By: Peter Croft

Peter Croft — Sun, 22 Mar 2015 04:44:38 +0000

Wow, what memories. Thanks John, and Ken. What a great time we lived through. I have strong memories of much of that equipment and the troubles we had. As someone said to me, much of that 1960/70s equipment “only just worked”, even when fresh from the factory. Every major new item was accompanied by a factory engineer for a week or more to get it working when installed, and to fix the early faults. What a contrast when we started using Japanese gear. It just worked first time, every time and kept working, fault free.
Videotape was fraught with problems and we only just got some programs to air, or kept them on air. We used to have to do acceptance testing of every reel of videotape bought – what a boring job that was – count the dropouts. I can remember when, if I could recognise the US news videotape pictures, then they passed the technical acceptance test. The “standards conversion” in the 70s was atrocious. To think that we can now record perfect Hi Def colour video onto SD cards at a few dollars each is astounding.
Many of us say, we lived through the golden years of TV, and they’re gone forever. Thanks for preserving as much as you can.

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