Pick UP Board

Will be posting details of a Pick UP board.  Actually a 68000 coprocessor board which runs Pick when hosted on a PC.

Hope to copy the media and post it somewhere.

Verlort Manual set

have purchased what appears to be the Carnarvon set of manuals for the radar.  I have looked them over briefly and hope to figure out what to do with them soon.  They are bound so I could disassemble and scan them, and may do so for the 8 1/2 x 11's.  I would need to borrow something for the large volume.

There is a note about servicing a unit (Maybe Carnarvon's) at Wallop's Island.  It may only be that the manuals were forwarded there.

This is the radar used to track Mercury, and i would assume other flights at long range.

The other bit from the manuals was a list of custom drawings for several sites.

Bermuda
Carnarvon
Kauai Island
Guaymas
Corpus Cristi
Grand Canary Island.

Below are some informative web pages about the radar.

http://www.infoage.org/html/anderson-ken-verlort-2007.html
http://www.carnarvonspace.com/wiki/index.php?title=VERLORT_Radar
http://wikimapia.org/6876128/VERLORT-Radar
http://crotrak.com/Next_page.htm

another page about Woomera Radars by Ken Anderson (author  of first page)

http://www.honeysucklecreek.net/other_stations/carnarvon/carnarvon.html

Cirrus Arm EDB9315a

I just got a variety of old development systems.  One is an Cirrus Arm EDB9315a shown here:

http://www.cirrus.com/en/pubs/manual/EDB9315A_Tech_Ref_Manual.pdf

PBY

various PBY and PBM resources
Air America:  http://www.utdallas.edu/library/collections/speccoll/Leeker/pby.pdf
PBY display aircraft:  http://www.fighterfactory.com/airworthy-aircraft/catalina-airplane.php

Video playback capability on LCD TV's DLNA

Here are some random notes on the subject.

Playback:
DLNA:  http://www.reghardware.com/2010/10/18/wtf_is_dlna/

Other collections and info

Various resources
http://192.197.62.35/staff/mcsele/computer.htm

Photos of Xerox Alto:
http://vintagecomputer.net/vcfmw-ECCC_2010/Xerox_Alto-II-XM/

Emulators

One thing to play with rather than old hardware is software emulating old hardware.  Much more fun, less hassle, and less smoke.

Here are some emulators:

Xerox Alto:  http://altogether.brouhaha.com/

Verlort Tracking Radar

Just sent for the tracking manuals for the Verlort Tracking radar for Project Mercury.  23# of stuff.

I'm not too sure what is on the way, since the photos didn't look like the manuals were that big.

Here are some links to the technology:
http://www.infoage.org/html/anderson-ken-verlort-2007.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/FPS-16
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