[Milsurplus] [MRCA] Lunar Photos

[Peter Gottlieb]

The Diablo's in the details?

ISTR cal would slip under heavy seeking. We did a voice system with massive disk activity so it was an issue. When a surplussed unit made it's way home with me it ran years without issue. 


Peter

> On Apr 26, 2014, at 1:24 AM, "J. Forster" <jfor at quikus.com> wrote:
> 
> You were doing something wrong then.
> 
> I took two used Diablo 31s, aligned them in Boston, shipped them by air
> freight to Bejing in October, 1979, unpacked them in front of an audience
> of 30 odd Chinese engineers in the Beijung Hotel, powered them, and
> checked the alignment.
> 
> They gave a perfect eye pattern, and when hooked to the Nova 1200, booted
> the Chinese Word Processor we'd built first time, and continued to work
> flawlessly both later in Shanghai and after my return to Boston.
> 
> -John
> 
> ==================
> 
> 
> 
>> 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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