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I'd say they were last powered on during the last Bush administration. The dup house had several racks of Panasonic AG-6810's that were fed from an AG-7510 via TBC for the VHS side and two racks of VO-5600's feeding off either the SVHS, Sony 3/4U with it's own TBC or a BVH with the BVT-2000. The one Nova 800 was on the VHS side but I'm not sure about the Nova 700 and the Microtime T100's doing nothing... those are the ones that actually work.
I was involved with educational productions for a number of years working with a post house and providing them with technical support and the dup house was down the hall. Not the most elegant but it worked well. Over the years they moved to digital filling the racks with various servers pushing out the VTR's as needed so I got the last of the legacy video equipment. There were also two good VO-5850's in the pile and some other odds & ends but miss the boat on the manuals as all the file cabinets were emptied into a large gaylord and picked up by Shread-It before I was called.
I also missed out on the Microtime 2020. Ancient by all standards they were wonderful TBC's if you had the time to tailor them.
So in the present it looks like the T100's are the winners despite being a full decade older than the Nova units.
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