I’ve just heard of the passing of John Jarvie – many of you will remember him.
A long career in the BBC started with a spell at Norwich and took him on to become Head of Studio Capital Projects – involving him in the creation of a number of new local radio station buildings – and later engineering general manager at TV Centre.
Thanks to Robin Hall for pointing me to this at the Forum for former BBC Staff
I’ve just discovered this 3D model of the East Tower – many happy memories of Sundays spent lift-racing all those years ago!
Many of you may have found this already, but, in the search for ETD course photos I stumbled across this page with a couple of interesting links to articles by Pat Leggatt and “LG” Smith about the BBC at Wood Norton during the war.
I’ve added this link to the ETD main page as well.
Keith Graham has just commented:-
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the launch of the Ampex VR1000. The Santa Clara (California) chapter of the IEEE, in conjunction with the San Francisco section of SMPTE unveiled a Historical Milestone plaque at Stanford University, where there is one of the first VR1000s on display.
Here is the link to a 30 minute documentary I made with footage of the event and reminiscences from people, including Fred Pfost, the last surviving member of the original development team.
Please forgive my “stealing” John Naull’s animation from the Christmas tape so many years ago.
You can find the video on YouTube here
(Keith is the originator of our photograph of the Ampex Sign)