[BC] Cart machines - and others

Craig Bowman craig1 at shianet.org
Sat Nov 27 09:25:00 CST 2010


Oh man does that bring back bad memories!  Do you have any pictures of 
the back of the carousel's showing the rubber bands holding in the PC 
boards?

Craig Bowman
Bowman Engineering
Local HDTV, Inc.
989-277-8835

On 11/26/2010 8:52 PM, Harold Hallikainen wrote:
>> No, we didn't have the "logger."   That sounds like a real kluge.  Once I
>> got the grand tour of the Schafer plant in Carpenteria with Andy McClure,
>> and saw their logging system using a KSR-33 Teletype unit.  I really liked
>> the 903 system, but never really never got to play with one -- mostly
>> 902s.  And a couple of Ken Aitken specials, the aforementioned Gates, and
>> a Broadcast Products brain that I tricked into doing time-insertion like a
>> 903, using a timer that I built myself.
>>
> In the 1970s, I built a program logging system using a Teletype model 15.
> I put 3.5kHz FSK data on the cue track. Each time a cart played, the
> carrier was detected causing the time to print, followed by the data off
> the cart. A photo of the system is at
> http://www.stationengineer.com/ksly%20kuna%20automation.jpg .
>
> Harold
>



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