[Milsurplus] [MRCA] Lunar Photos

[Bob Camp]

Hi

I’m not sure that the DEC tape and disk drives were any worse than the other stuff we had. We spent a lot of time working on all of them. 

Bob

On Apr 25, 2014, at 6:32 PM, J. Forster <jfor at quikus.com> wrote:

> 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
> 
> ===================
> 
> 
>> 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.
>>> 
>>> Ray F
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