[Milsurplus] [MRCA] Lunar Photos

[Bob Camp]

Hi

Well, back in the late 60’s and early 70’s most of our time on the DEC machines was spend rebuilding drives and copying media….. 

Bob

On Apr 25, 2014, at 12:31 PM, Ray Fantini <RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu> wrote:

> Platforms come and go at alarming speed these days. Not uncommon to see pallets of tapes being sold at Wallops or Goddard for next to nothing. The last couple years there have been almost endless lots of D1 digital video cassettes, a huge expensive non compressed digital format for analog NTSC Here at the university we just pulled some one inch C format video tapes we had from the nineties and found that all the local TV stations no longer have that format and am now looking at trying to find a playback deck for that format. We still have a working 16 MM projector and am surprised by how many have come and wanted us to transfer from that to video. The problem is not that there is not the media out there but the equipment to transfer the old media to any current format is the issue.
> In the last five or ten years I have been working with old DEC computers at home, maybe more then with radios. The thing that occupies the most time is rebuilding drives and copying media with one of the largest ongoing projects being transferring old files to more modern platforms and getting modern systems to be able to push software to old systems. That's the big project around the shop these days.
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> Ray F
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