|
MacKenzie Louis G. MacKenzie built his "repeater" in 1955. Using endless loops of tape, he could have any number of audio cuts ready to be used as needed. |
|
|
|
MacKenzie Repeater 500 - 1955 Rack mounted, they could be stacked in groups of five for as many audio cuts as needed. Very popular in Hollywood for television and film production. |
|
|
MacKenzie Repeater APR-20 - |
|
MaCarTa and SMC / Sono Mag
Corp. Edison Moulic Moulic Specialites Co. founded MaCarTa, Sono Mag with his son, Bill. Sono Mag was for Sound on Magnetic Tape. |
|
|
|
The original MaCarTa was made to be a "music machine" for businesses. |
|
|
|
|
|
ESP-2 circa 1987 |
|
|
DP-2 (Control section here) Courtesy: Bob Reis |
| 248 - Carousel | |
| 250 - Carousel - These were OEM'd to Gates as well as being used by SMC | |
| 350 - Carousel - These were OEM'd to Gates as well as being used by SMC | |
|
Gates Radio Quincy, IL Gates got into studio automation in 1957 with the "Auto Station." |
|
|
|
Auto Station - 1957 |
|
|
Nite-Watch - 1960
This one used a pair of Seaburg 50s to provide the music! |
|
|
G-824 Carousel - 1973 |
|
|
Gates Carousel |
|
|
Gates 55 |
|
|
Critereon 855 - 1973 |
|
A major syndicator of music and then |
|
|
|
IGM 770 KCBS-FM ... Used a Digital Equipment Corporation PDP8 minicomputer with iron-core memory |
| IGM Simplimation | |
|
|
IGM 500 |
|
|
IGM 600 - 1970 |
|
|
IGM Basic A an 8085 microcomputer and FSK logging. Originally designed by Sentry Systems and sold to IGM. WKBC, Stoney Owen |
|
|
IGM MC a 286 PC communicating to switcher unit WKBC, Stoney Owen |
|
|
InstaCart 48 slots! (48
heads and rollers to clean!!!)
Primarily used in automation systems, it was also employed by some stations with "aggressive formats." |
| GoCart -
Since "carousel" was copyrighted by SMC, IGM used "GoCart" |
|
|
|
|
|
|
1K - 1977 - a concept product. Only one was built. It lived as aa automated telephone library system at the University of Wisconsin, Madison for about 10 years. Technology moved too fast - and this Z-80 based machine was obsolete almost as soon as it was designed. |
|
|
750 - Playback deck 1975 |
|
|
850 - Playback deck 1978 |
|
Schafer
One of the more famous of all the automation
systems - the name became synonymous with automation. In 1956 Paul Schafer developed an automation system
using reel-to-reel machines, even for commercials - where the emulsion was
wiped clean and counted, so it could be set to the number selected by the
numbered knobs. (Of course, there are a lot of stories about machines
losing count and littering a studio with thousands of tiny pieces of tape.) |
|
|
|
800T (pictured KTAR-FM) |
| 901 | |
| 903 | |
| 1200 | |
|
|
7000
KLCB, Libby, MT |
|
|
AudioFile The Cetec/Schaefer cart
machine KLCB, Libby, MT |
|
Continental
Electronics |
|
|
|
ProLog |
|
Autogram Veteran Dallas engineer Ernie Ankele and his wife DeLores started Autogram to produce an automation system after Continental discontinued their Pro-Log Automation line. (It seems like Autogram = Automated Programming or some such variation.) |
|
|
|
Autogram Automation
|
|
Broadcast Electronics In 19xx, Broadcast Electronics was formed to manufacture the Spotmaster brand. Quite a few announcers who got their start in the 1960s remember the distinctive lever, used to engage the cartridge. |
|
| Control 16X | |
| AudioVault | |
|
Harris |
|
|
|
System 90 - 1976 |
|
|
System 9000 - 1980 |
