I was watching "Connections", (either ep 4 or ep 5 - "Faith in
Numbers" or
"Wheel of Fortune", when about 3 min into the show, James Burke fires up a
Straight-8 w/LED front-panel lights, and at least a couple of DECtape drives,
all to control a planetarium.
I just about fell off the couch!
http://www.documentary-video.com/displayitem.cfm?vid=854
-ethan
P.S. - to make this doubly on-topic, I was watching this on Betamax. I think
the South Pole has the largest Beta repository on the planet - several hundred
original tapes. I probably found about one or two a week to watch, all year
long, from "Soylent Green" to "2001" to "Forbidden Planet",
and lots more!
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Ethan Dicks, A-130-S Current South Pole Weather at 11-Nov-2004 22:01 Z
South Pole Station
PSC 468 Box 400 Temp -40 F (-40.0 C) Windchill -72.59 F (-58.2 C)
APO AP 96598 Wind 15.1 kts Grid 000 Barometer 690.3 mb (10238. ft)
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