Re: Travel in time
@Jacek: Re "Everytime I read it, I feel like travelling in time with you."
Sadly, there is only room for two people in the time machine ... but we will send you a post card from 1975 ... you can expect a knock on the door anytime now...
If I could go back in time...
When I think of all the paper tape readers that used to be lying around ... that I could have purchased for scrap ... I'm kicking myself now.
What I really want to do is get myself an old Teletype machine with both a card reader/punch and a paper tape reader/punch.
Does anyone know of such a machine for sale (for a price I can afford)?
Re: It's amazing when you think about it...
@Sven: As I recall, the folded papertape just sat in a box on the floor -- you fed one end into the reader. When the reader was running, the papertabe would just unfold as it was pulled out of the box...
svenand
7/5/2012 5:08:00 PM
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Re: It's amazing when you think about it...
Just one more comment about the S-3260 test system. I found this sales brochure from Tektronix showing probably the first system they made. If you look closer you can see that the paper tape punch/reader takes paper tape rolls. In the system we got there was a DEC paper tape punch/reader for folded paper tape. When we got the first update to the TekTest III operating system it was delivered on 4 or 5 rolls of paper tape. Here is a quiz. Can you guess how we could read the paper tape rolls in our reader for folded paper tape?
Re: The 1970s called...
@Sven: Does this mean that you will be looking into the back of your wardrobe and dusting off your bell bottoms again? :-)
Travel in time
Hi Sven,
great blog as usual. Everytime I read it, I feel like travelling in time with you. There was a TV show in the 90's - I don't remember the title, but it was something with quantum leap :) the only difference is that your stories are much more funny (not only because of trousers) and interesting... I'll be waiting for your next blog.
Brian
6/30/2012 7:34:21 PM
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Re: The 1970s called...
Yeah, but the only problem with that theory is that I don't remember them being popular in the 90's (1x20). But, you can always hope...and dream! :-)
svenand
6/30/2012 3:37:58 PM
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Re: The 1970s called...
I read somewhere that fashion cycles are approximately 20 years. So who knows maybe in a few years (2x20) time bellbottom trousers will be popular again.
Re: Good article...
I agree good article. Wow the 70s seems like a lifetime ago. It's funny I was just talking about the 70s and hippies this week. Think my hometown was too small for hippies. lol
I remember my first assignment out of college, at Westinghouse, who became Northrop Grumman less than a year after I was hired. I learned so much from the Sr engineers who really mentored me. It was funny working with high voltage.
Brian
6/30/2012 1:51:19 PM
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Good article...
Hi Sven,
Thanks for posting this article; it was really good. I also enjoyed the 1977 Ericsson Review article ("The Selection and Testing of Electronic Components.") The photos included in the report were great as well :-)
Re: "I was really scared, because I had never seen anything like it before"
I think all of us engineers were scared in our first assignments. Although, looking at that huge, new, state-of-the-art machine and being told "it's yours" must have been intimidating...
I remember my first assignment as a controls engineer at an automotive electronics manufacturer. "You will integrate and program this wirebonding machine into the high-volume pressure sensor line." My thoughts ==> I'M GOING TO DO WHAT!!?? :-)
Re: "Then I realized it would be much more fun to program this beast, which meant I would have to move to the component test department and become a test engineer. This will be the next part of my story."
I can't wait to read the next installment...
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