[Milsurplus] [MRCA] Lunar Photos

[Peter Gottlieb]

I did that to my system. It got to the point of requiring more time to repair than it ran. Mostly connector issues, then those massive power supplies. 

I had a military surplus DG machine which was pretty solid but obviously had cost a heck of a lot more. 


Peter

> On Apr 26, 2014, at 1:01 AM, Bob Camp <ham at kb8tq.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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