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This forum is great…. Old tales…… well, I started at GE designing DC motors with a slide rule! The year – 1978. And, that was almost 10 years after the Elec-Traks were designed. How technology has improved. But motors still work the same. …Walt From: Chad Bush [mailto:bushman165s aol com]
You guys and your hobbies. I was lucky enough as an engineering co-op to work with a microVAX pdp11 running the VMS OS, networked with a microVAX II that ran our
main data acquisition software, communicating over GPIB with HP3852 A/D converters and PSI8400 devices. We upgraded to 1GB hard drives in 2005! Original hard drives were 640MB and had to be locked down when we transported the 4 that we owned into a single
location for turn-in. We had reel-to-reel backups and TD-50 cassettes as well. It was really fun to make changes in software, (written in Fortran 77), and really see the functionality go to work. I support wind tunnels in the research environment and I really
miss the days of running tests on a mere few megabytes. Now I can develop software that acquires data at 200kHz over 48 channels without a hiccup across a CAT6 network using NI hardware. I still own power supply Heath kits and meters from the 1970s that I
use for Elec-trak component troubleshooting, along with iPod and iPhone repair, lol. Chad |