[GreenKeys] Telephoto machines?
Don Robert House K9TTY
62.5milliamps at gmail.com
Sun Jun 28 15:04:39 EDT 2015
Little by little things are being put on display. The SDSU Library is hoping for additional space to become available.
If I get there before transferring to the "other side" I can find out more.
Don
K9TTY
On 28 Jun 2015, at 1:40 PM, WA5CAB at cs.com wrote:
> OK. I was under the impression that the museum had closed and been broken up.
>
> I still have the table and other pieces.
>
> In a message dated 06/28/2015 12:17:45 PM Central Daylight Time, 62.5milliamps at gmail.com writes:
>> Robert,
>>
>> The system was designed and built by the PHILCO Corporation. The same company that built the Magnetic Anomaly Detection (MAD) gear for anti-submarine warfare. I used to be a maintenance specialist for MAD gear.
>>
>> The complete TXC-1 is still at the San Diego Computer Museum at the San Diego State University Library.
>> If I remember correctly I think I sent the speaker back to you or sent you a replacement.
>>
>> Of course the table was not there so we adapted a table to look similar to the original.
>> The special paper, and stylus are there also. UPS broke one of the tubes in the power supply, but Glen Galati provided a replacement.
>>
>> If anyone watches the opening of Clint Eastwood's "Flags of our Fathers" you will see the TXC-1 in action.
>> Your power supply for the machine has sort have been immortalized by the film.
>>
>> Thanks again for all of your kind support.
>> Don
>
>
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