[BC] Re: Secondary & Tertiary Tone

Mark Croom croom.mark at gmail.com
Wed Feb 18 15:32:57 CST 2009


The automation I reference in my other message was a Shafer 902 and 1/2,
with the thumbwheel controller for source sequencing. Much simpler than the
ones that needed some kind of terminal to program, but much dumber.

Worked for our country music format tho.

Mark
MN

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Chuck Lakaytis <chuck at akpb.org> wrote:

> I well remember working for Ingstad Broadcasting  programming and
> maintaining a Cetec 902-903 system fully equipped with ITC 750's Otari
> 1000's, several accursed Audiofile cart machines, and the ever weird giant
> carts that held the time announcements.  One for even minutes, one for odd.
>  Did it all with arcane command line commands from a Behive Terminal, made
> of course in the Beehive state of Utah......
>
> Never ever complain about modern automation systems unless you have worked
> on one of the old girls at the start of the automation age!
>
> I spent many an hour with my logic probe looking for the fault in those
> racks of  7500 logic cards.
>
> Phil Longenecker wrote:
>
>> Wow, talk about Rube Goldberg.
>>
>>
>



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