[BC] luxury! take94

[Rich Wood]

------ At 12:04 AM 5/6/2005, Clive Warner wrote: -------

>Luxury! At Skelton I had to program the programme changes by typing codes on
>a perforator keyboard to punch a long, long paper tape. And if (when) it
>snagged in the reader and broke, I had to do it all over again.

You mean you didn't make a backup?

>I was grateful when the tape was replaced with a 64x64 bit ferrite core
>store (if any of you know what that was - about 4K of non-volatile memory)
>and a roomful of NORBIT logic (potted discrete-component DTL circuits-so old
>you cannot find a reference to it on Google.)

I remember seeing one of those years ago. My uncle ran a company that made 
collision avoidance equipment for tankers. It had to be programmed with 
switch sequences. That's how I got to be a Commie for a week. He hired me 
as a photographer to document the installation of the system (State 
Department approved) on the MS Alexander Pushkin, part of the Baltic 
Shipping Company (Soviet state-owned).

Stay tuned for a message from Ron claiming this proves I'm a lefty.

Rich

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