[BC] Remembering Harris 9100 Automation

[Don Niccum]

>The biggest problem we had was not with the 9003, but with the Go-Carts we
>were running.  Every once in a while the positioning wheel would become
>misaligned and the machine would just sit there trying to insert and eject
a
>cart, rocking back and forth until eventually it destroyed the cart,
>shooting plastic shrapnel everywhere.

At a station here in Roswell I took care of the older Harris System 90.  It
had the Go-Carts in it.
As long as you gave them lots of TLC, they seemed to work OK.  There was one
particular morning
the newsperson called yelling about one of the Go-Carts throwing carts.  I
got down there and the
Go-Cart was spinning as fast as the motor would allow and every so often it
would pitch one of
the carts out across the room.  Pulled the power, plugged it back in and it
settled down.  Never
did figure that one out.  As far as the System 90 was concerned, once every
two weeks, I would
pull all of the cards from the 'brain', reseat all of the TI chips and we
were good to go.

Don Niccum
KCKN
Roswell, NM