05-01-2020, 09:36 AM
(This post was last modified: 05-01-2020, 09:37 AM by ppppenguin.)
Thank you, Peter.
How much did I really understand? How much was I regurgitating stuff I found in books etc? No idea.
A couple of years later (1973?) a couple of teachers decided they'd like to set up a TV studio at the school. The old art room had become vacant and the school bought some secondhand kit from the Family Planning Association. This included 3 Ikegami vidicon cameras, vision and sound mixers, an Ampex VR7003H 1" VTR and some monitors. The 9" Ikegami monitor still sits above my bench to this day.
In the land of the blind, I was the one-eyed man. So started my practical association with TV studio technology which led to my career. Without realising at the time, it also led to my interest in vintage technology. Simply because a lot of the bits we acquired over the years were decidedly vintage. At the time I was always after the best and most modern kit that I could get but I had to work with all sorts of stuff. We became expert scroungers. Of course we sold as much of the old stuff as possible to raise funds. Many happy days were spent flogging a load of stuff at British Amateur TV Club rallies over the years. That in turn led to meeting Paul Marshall and my present work with the BECG: www.becg.org.uk
How much did I really understand? How much was I regurgitating stuff I found in books etc? No idea.
A couple of years later (1973?) a couple of teachers decided they'd like to set up a TV studio at the school. The old art room had become vacant and the school bought some secondhand kit from the Family Planning Association. This included 3 Ikegami vidicon cameras, vision and sound mixers, an Ampex VR7003H 1" VTR and some monitors. The 9" Ikegami monitor still sits above my bench to this day.
In the land of the blind, I was the one-eyed man. So started my practical association with TV studio technology which led to my career. Without realising at the time, it also led to my interest in vintage technology. Simply because a lot of the bits we acquired over the years were decidedly vintage. At the time I was always after the best and most modern kit that I could get but I had to work with all sorts of stuff. We became expert scroungers. Of course we sold as much of the old stuff as possible to raise funds. Many happy days were spent flogging a load of stuff at British Amateur TV Club rallies over the years. That in turn led to meeting Paul Marshall and my present work with the BECG: www.becg.org.uk
www.borinsky.co.uk Jeffrey Borinsky www.becg.tv
Otherwise I'd be taking a real interest, winding LOPT's, tweaking gated AGC systems, making EHT regulators, adding clamp diodes... Generally taking precious time away from other electronics stuff! Luckily, I don't, because I've no interest in the final article!
