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Old 08-02-2015, 11:12 PM
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Doug, thanks so much. I suggest those who are interested download a copy to their computer for preservation.

I watched with an eye out for anyone I might recognize. John Rennick appears in the foreground at about 06:13. I never worked with him, but I once had to call him at home long after he had retired, to ask about the color crystal capacitance value that Zenith had standardized on. I needed to change it for the design of some cable head-end gear, and wanted to make sure I wasn't making a mistake.

Rennick was the senior engineer for the Zenith participation in the NTSC color tests, and was on hand during the famous "blue banana' trick. He was so certain that Zenith's color prototype was correct, that when the blue bananas came on screen, he told RCA that they had a transmission problem, turned off the Zenith set, and went to dinner.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1...ision-research
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