First quad machine to be used in Australia

[Aussie Bloke]

Hi all.

I've been doing some research on the history of the usage of videotape recording in Australia out of personal interest and I've came across a great article in a "Radio, Television & Hobbies" magazine from October 1958 illustrating the usage of videotape recording over here in Australia which I thought would be interesting to share with you's all, particularly the Aussies who post here in the forums.

Anyways as it appears the first Ampex quad VTR to be put into operation in Australia was installed at ATN-7 Sydney sometime in 1958. This VTR had to be modified to suit our B&W TV standards at the time which was 625 lines at a bandwidth of 5 Mhz which was a challenge for the Ampex team.

I've attached this article for you's all to see.

I'm personally trying to find out what the earliest surviving B&W videotape recording in Australia is and am hoping to somehow get a hold of a copy of the program. So far the oldest videotape recording I know of to date is an episode of "In Melbourne Tonight" from 31st December 1961 hosted by Australia's king of television Graham Kennedy, the show runs into the new year, I have a very poor probably 6th generation copy of that show. If anyone here knows what the earliest surviving Aussie videotape recording is and could tell me it be much appreciated.