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We will go to the moon and take these pictures

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    We will go to the moon and take these pictures

    Not because it is easy but because it is hard.

    And then we'll recover them using stuff stored in someone's garage for 30 years or so.

    Moonviews

    Interesting documentary.

    That recorder is a transverse scan rotating head machine, much like an instrumentation version of the Ampex quadruplex VTR.

    Gosh.

    And for the hardware enthusiasts, here's the Ampex FR-900 in all its glory.

    Moonviews: Tapes and Drives Archives

    It appears to be a transverse scan video recorder somewhat repurposed.

    Here's the Ampex brochure for the FR-900.

    Yours for a mere $300k in real uninflated 1965 $.

    http://www.digitrakcom.com/literatur...ure%20FULL.pdf

    And should you have a spare Saturn V hanging around somewhere, here's someone who can reverse engineer the computery out of it:

    Welcome To The Lab Of An Apollo Computer Anatomist | Popular Science

    Loved the antique Tek scopes.

    It was all green fields around here when they were new.
    Last edited by zeitghost; 6 June 2017, 07:47.

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    Wow, great link. Thanks.
    England's greatest sailor since Nelson lost the armada.

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      #3
      An old one but good one.

      NASA Fakes Moon Landing! Photographic Proof!

      Behold the warranty -- the bold print giveth and the fine print taketh away.

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        #4
        Excellent links! Thanks

        You can follow along as the 45th anniversary of the flight continues at http://apollo11.spacelog.org

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          And take a look at the ISEE-3 Reboot project.

          Space College: ISEE-3 Reboot Project Archives

          You can keep up to date on Twitter @ISEE3Reboot

          Science crowd-sourcing at it's best.
          "I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
          - Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...

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            Originally posted by cojak View Post
            And take a look at the ISEE-3 Reboot project.

            Space College: ISEE-3 Reboot Project Archives

            You can keep up to date on Twitter @ISEE3Reboot

            Science crowd-sourcing at it's best.
            +1. The futurologists never predicted an unofficial group of scientists, funded by donations from around the world, re-activating a long-lost space probe from an abandoned McDonalds

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              Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
              +1. The futurologists never predicted an unofficial group of scientists, funded by donations from around the world, re-activating a long-lost space probe from an abandoned McDonalds
              8th August - watch that space.
              "I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
              - Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...

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