[Milsurplus] [MRCA] Lunar Photos
J. Forster
jfor at quikus.com
Fri Apr 25 18:32:33 EDT 2014
Well, DEC made it's own peripherals. DG bought peripherals from vendors in
the business of making peripherals. They worked a lot better. Viz:
Digitronics (PTR)
Teletype (PTP)
Diablo (RHD)
AlphaDate (FHD)
BeeHive (VDT)
Centronics (LPT)
Calcomp (PLT)
The later DG peripherals generally sucked.
YMMV,
-John
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> Hi
>
> Well, back in the late 60s and early 70s 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.
>>
>> Ray F
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