[Milsurplus] [MRCA] Lunar Photos

[J. Forster]

DECtape was a copy of the Link Tape, a well proven design. Link also had
the LTOS.

-John

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> 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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