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| PhenixRising Guru  Joined: 07/11/2023 Location: United KingdomPosts: 856 |
I can't get enough of this stuff Fascinating. We need a thread for early computing experiences. I love reading that stuff  |
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Mixtel90 Guru Joined: 05/10/2019 Location: United KingdomPosts: 6768 |
Bit Chute? Nope, not for me. All I saw was a US conspiracy theory about weather control. Pretty pictures (with no location details), pretty diagrams and what may or may not be some sort of satellite generated stuff - no mention of which satellite or exactly what it's detecting. Along with some US patent numbers (and why would the US secretive departments bother making their ideas public via the patents system?) which, even if they were genuine, may never have been used as the US patents system is famously broken. Fun to watch, like Towering Inferno, but not necessarily realistic. :) Perhaps the link has changed? Mick Zilog Inside! nascom.info for Nascom & Gemini Preliminary MMBasic docs & my PCB designs |
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| PhenixRising Guru Joined: 07/11/2023 Location: United KingdomPosts: 856 |
 oops, my bad...was supposed to be thisSorry...my kids are in North Carolina and I sent that other link to my son, last night. Forgot to copy the YT link |
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| Mixtel90 Guru Joined: 05/10/2019 Location: United KingdomPosts: 6768 |
Lol! :) That's *Much* better. :) ============================= I really enjoyed that, thanks. :) I love the wire-wrap machine! Edited 2024-10-02 17:56 by Mixtel90 Mick Zilog Inside! nascom.info for Nascom & Gemini Preliminary MMBasic docs & my PCB designs |
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| Volhout Guru Joined: 05/03/2018 Location: NetherlandsPosts: 4221 |
Phenix, Nice catch that they use the Sperry CNC system in 1955 to wire Sperry/Rand UNIVAC backplanes. But not from TAPE !!! They use solid state memory for that (tape would get very long). This is very much how all large companies operated in those days. Philips used their own machines to build their own TV tubes, to build their own TV's, and the capacitors came from a Philips factory, that used Philips machines to make the capacitors. Same for electron tubes, transformers, semiconductors, chips... Volhout Edited 2024-10-02 20:22 by Volhout PicomiteVGA PETSCII ROBOTS |
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| PhenixRising Guru Joined: 07/11/2023 Location: United KingdomPosts: 856 |
I mean; it's not just the fact that they positioned the ends of the wires accurately but they were stripped and wrapped. Wish they'd shown a close-up of the wire-wrapping. The whole thing is mind boggling for me; servo hydraulics is a specialty of mine and it's nothing like controlling a servo motor but these guys had servo valves all over the place and what about those air-spindles. Calibrating any one of those elements can be challenging, even today. |
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Rickard5 Guru Joined: 31/03/2022 Location: United StatesPosts: 463 |
WOW I love. the Era of CNC so Much, Great Video Thanks for sharing I may be Vulgar, but , while I'm poor, I'm Industrious, Honest, and trustworthy! I Know my Place |
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| Mixtel90 Guru Joined: 05/10/2019 Location: United KingdomPosts: 6768 |
The best thing is that a lot of the earliest stuff was done with proper valves! twin-triode flip-flops and stuff, with power pentodes driving relays. Proper electronics. With electrons. Mick Zilog Inside! nascom.info for Nascom & Gemini Preliminary MMBasic docs & my PCB designs |
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| PhenixRising Guru Joined: 07/11/2023 Location: United KingdomPosts: 856 |
And proper electric bill Still can't get over the pneumatic tape reader  |
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