Scoring Camera

This is a Traid Scoring camera.  It has a 3mm fisheye lens and films to 16mm.  The main film mover is a B&H 70 core 100' movement, driven by a 28v DC motor.

The other feature is that it has a badge saying it is supplied to the USAF by Land Sea.  This company was small when this was built, and it was a contractor the the USAF and not affiliated with the Traid company.  It supplied logistics to the military of the nature of air logistics, test aircraft support, and other things that were out of band for normal channels.

I figure from what I've read they would be the ones in first to set some oddball operation up, and then the AF would come in and document it and staff it with personnel from normal billets if it had to continue operation.

Not sure about the internal ring of 10 neon lamps either.  I suspect they are to do with whatever a scoring camera is.  I didn't find anything to do something like recording timing or other information on the film as the test runs, so not sure why you'd want so much illumination internal to the lens assembly.

Also I had to know how the hell a 3mm focal length lens could be the size of a tallboy beer can.  Usually they have some sort of fisheye assembly on the front, but they tend to shrink with the focal length.  I have 5mm lenses for 16mm film format which are 4" long, but they have curved coverage of the film.

Beckman Deuterium lamp

8333 Beckman tube

Window view

Part 8333

Three leads

Sparcbook 3

This is the latest Tadpole system acquired from the fellow with some bits of this hardware.

I looked and found that there is an adapter for the Macs for the SCSI from something called HD-30 to SCSI2.  SCSI2 is what the 50 pin connector is now called.  I'm guessing it will be single ended, so should be able to use a Sparc 411 box, and a Plextor CD drive to install it.

This is equivalent to a Sparcstation 5, and is probably the fastest system likely to be had as a laptop by my collecting parameters (cheap, bargain).

Battery in nice shape

HD-30 Scsi Port can be seen at the left

Not sure if this is original to any Sparcbook.

The other sparcbooks somewhat wider and shorter supplies that are marked with a Sparcbook legend.  This appears to be the correct supply parameters, but not original to the sparcbook.  May be a sign the guy is running out of sparcbooks to sell. All of mine are coming from the same seller.

Vax VLC

A fellow on the cctalk group decided to thin out his herd of Micro vax systems, and sent out some to the list members.

This is the critter that is in my pile now.  I guess I will need to dig up more Sun 411 boxes and scsi drives or converters.

Hopefully will get an HP 16505 soon, and have a PA baby system to keep it company.  Maybe boot it on BSD, or dig up the pile of VAX if that is a supported system.

Modem, keyboard, options.  Are on Graphics daugher card