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Let not forget one reason some early shows were saved is they would cut the tape to edit the show like film. It would make the roll no good for reuse.
I once had a 90 min roll come off an RCA quad duing rewind that thing hit the floor and took off, hit the wall and put a hole in it. We always made sure the hub locks were on good and tight after that.
There are still some of the Ampex 2000's AVR 1, 2, 3's still around that are operational. Both Ampex and RCA had spot players they were a work of art.
It would make me feel like a kid again to see an ACR25 do a spot break during the supperbowl with everyone in the VTR room watching it hoping it would not mess up. Those were the days it's all simple now.
It was a hard format to keep working good but when it was it made great pictures. A format in everyday use for almost 30 years and most of the great shot on video shows during the 60's and 70's we see today as reruns were mastered on it. They had an old Ampex 1000 in the back room I never did see it turned on but it really did have I'd say way over 100 tubes in it's two racks of electronics.
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