[Milsurplus] [MRCA] Lunar Photos

[Bob Camp]

Hi

I can’t say I had any *good* experiences with the Diablo drives….they seemed to be really good at going out of alignment the instant you turned your back. We were taking a sledge to some modern drives at work today. I really wish I could have done the same to a few of those drives “back in the day”.

Bob

On Apr 25, 2014, at 6:57 PM, Peter Gottlieb <nerd at verizon.net> wrote:

> I had pretty good experiences with DEC drives RX01 and RY01, RK05, RM-something, terminals VT52, 55 (such an odd printer in it!), and 100. Also some of their printing terminals. DEC used Teletypes too and I had both Diablo and Wang drives which I wasn't happy with. 
> 
> DEC was in the business of making peripherals too. 
> 
> 
> Peter
> 
>> On Apr 26, 2014, at 12:32 AM, "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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