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Products => Test Equipment => Topic started by: Electro Fan on May 06, 2015, 09:51:08 pm
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I didn’t know they had voice recognition command driven menu stuff then :)
Not to mention we hardly see the nice analog clocks any more
Don’t see any digital readouts…
The guy in the chair looks to be ahead of his time with business casual
Nice phone handset too
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Check out the chairs. :palm:
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Check out the chairs. :palm:
Good spot. Maybe this outfit produced movies, or had picnics.
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More likely, spent almost all the budget on the gear, and got the chairs with the leftover money.
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We use a couple of Ikea Siaro directors chairs in our data centers. You can fold them up and slide them between racks so people don't fall over them you see. Also they double as a work bench.
These guys were just 60 years ahead of us :)
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We use a couple of Ikea Siaro directors chairs in our data centers. You can fold them up and slide them between racks so people don't fall over them you see. Also they double as a work bench.
These guys were just 60 years ahead of us :)
More likely, spent almost all the budget on the gear, and got the chairs with the leftover money.
Back when practical was practical :)
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My guess was something military, given the chairs, .
A subsequent Google Image search brings up a Wikimedia Commons page (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NNSA-NSO-918.jpg), which gives the original source as "National Nuclear Security Administration Nevada Site Office Photo Library." The caption is:
Gaelin Felt, Assistant to Deputy Test Director (seated) and J. C. Clark, Deputy Test Director at the complex instrument panel in the control room of the Control Point at Yucca Pass, Nevada Proving Ground.
No date given, but the category is TUMBLER-SNAPPER, which looks like a code-name. Indeed, it was. Operation TUMBLER-SNAPPER (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Tumbler–Snapper) was conducted in 1952.
It is, indeed, some early test equipment, part of the huge Cold War effort that dumped a shit-ton of money into the arms race that made the US Govt the first/best customer of a lot of the early Silicon Valley and Route 128 high tech companies.
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Wow, the photo went from cute to kind of disconcerting.
eas, your Google search was an impressive find. (And hopefully this stuff leading to the development of Silicon Valley and Route 128 is the happy ending result.)
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This photo comes from a time when wearing a tie was always absolutely required, every office, meeting room, and lab had a thick cloud of cigarette smoke, and every surface was covered in a yellow layer of old nicotine. The only plus side was the pin-up girl posters all over the place.
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This photo comes from a time when wearing a tie was always absolutely required, every office, meeting room, and lab had a thick cloud of cigarette smoke, and every surface was covered in a yellow layer of old nicotine. The only plus side was the pin-up girl posters all over the place.
Only an obvious plus if you weren't an old-school "computer."
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Looks a little like the RCA Synthesizer (https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=rca+synthesizer&safe=off&tbm=isch&imgil=nWeygR6KPk4OIM%253A%253BvHOLCFaFd4oXdM%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fcreatedigitalmusic.com%25252F2005%25252F04%25252Frca-synthesizer-50-years-later%25252F&source=iu&pf=m&fir=nWeygR6KPk4OIM%253A%252CvHOLCFaFd4oXdM%252C_&usg=__1HjCFDp3SwVZU6ZPspQ1jmARiT0%3D&biw=1051&bih=546&ved=0CDIQyjc&ei=GPVKVeyVJois7AbJ9IDoAg#imgrc=_)
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Fortunately they closed the chair gap in the early '60s with one that would instill fear in any enemy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_launch_control_center#/media/File:Minuteman_III_Launch_Control.JPG (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_launch_control_center#/media/File:Minuteman_III_Launch_Control.JPG)
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That reminds me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR2CLmd3HsQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR2CLmd3HsQ) ;D
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No date given, but the category is TUMBLER-SNAPPER, which looks like a code-name. Indeed, it was. Operation TUMBLER-SNAPPER (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Tumbler–Snapper) was conducted in 1952.
That is one evil-looking nuclear fireball:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Tumbler_Snapper_rope_tricks.jpg/500px-Tumbler_Snapper_rope_tricks.jpg)
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Jeeezzz, do they have a description of the camera systems?
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Jeeezzz, do they have a description of the camera systems?
Rapatronic.
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Check out the chairs. :palm:
What's wrong with them? I've got some and they're really nice to sit in.
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Caption:
"We have a situation, the lunch box is out of reach... I repeat the lunch box is out of reach."
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Man, I have to walk about 100 feet to see panels like that in the control room at work.
We have modern office chairs though. And our old school phone is just a desk style one, in red.
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Rightmost rack, centered vertically is a Hammarlund Super-Pro shortwave receiver.
Small round signal strength meter at the upper left, two large tuning knobs at the bottom.
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You know that thing was sucking watts like nobody's business: Vacuum tubes, electric motors, thermal strip chart recorders, fans to cool the inside ...
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Cameras by Hasselblad. good enough to go to the moon and take film of atomic bomb blasts. You had something like a mile of film inside, and it went all in a second or two.
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You know that thing was sucking watts like nobody's business: Vacuum tubes, electric motors, thermal strip chart recorders, fans to cool the inside ...
And yet, the power consumption and (in)efficiency are trivial compared to that of the DUT!
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The guy in the chair is making recordings for the voice announcement of the current time. It's WWV in Boulder CO. :-DD
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Cameras by Hasselblad. good enough to go to the moon and take film of atomic bomb blasts. You had something like a mile of film inside, and it went all in a second or two.
I don't think Hasselblad was involved in the Rapatronic cameras. These were invented by Harold "Doc" Edgerton, one of the founders of EG&G. MIT maintains a great website on Edgerton's technology legacy, by the way: http://edgerton-digital-collections.org/ (http://edgerton-digital-collections.org/)
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I have a garage full of cool stuff then...................................