18 Apr
2019
18 Apr
'19
5:10 p.m.
On 4/18/19 9:42 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
The 1401 guys at CHM were working on one using a real 701 tube.
I don't think it was ever finished.
I don't expect that any EBAM has survived--I think all of the stuff I
saw at CDC ADL was scrapped. Seems that the technology is all but
forgotten today:
https://bit.ly/2KOOl82
It's mentioned in a proposal by Neil Lincoln back in the 1970s:
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19770084287.pdf
I've long thought that a scan converter tube (e.g. 7912) might make a
good electrostatic memory.
--Chuck