[ARC Tech-109]

Honestly I'm not sure but I'd say they're 8-bit given the topology and limited memory space. The Microtime T100's have a single board of nothing but memory that measures a good 8x10 inches of 64k RAM plus a number of 128K EPROMS all dated late 1984 so I'm confident this is 8-bit technology most likely a four line time slice. The full frame Nova 800 has several meg of memory onboard with a number of processors so this one might be a 10-bit, hard to say without a manual or other documentation. If I get ambitious I might cross ref some of the IC's on the board to see what they're all about. There's two 128-pin quad pack processors running the show plus some EEPROM's and rows of what appears to be 640K RAM so I might make this one my primary TBC given it's capabilites.

I would imagine the Sony BVT-2000 external TBC for the type-c decks were all 10-bit given the capabilities of the recorder itself. I have the 4-card internal TBC in my BVH-2000 which is 8-lines but I have no idea at what depth, all the Sony IC's on the cards start with CX and that also happens to be the model prefix of consumer camcorders. Only thing I can confirm is it has plenty of memory to do what it needs to.