Re: WIRED Article: The Ridiculously Overpriced ‘Vintage’ Tech of Ebay

On Thu, 9 Aug 2012, Christian Liendo wrote: I wouldn't mind having the Varian 620. That's the brain behind the Vital I scene generator used on a 727-100 flight simulator I used to work on. http://flightweb.simpits.org/BehindTheScenes/727sim1.jpg The "cartridge" on the side was just a wood & acrylic box that held a loop of punched mylar tape. The tape held all the relevant data for the current flight (the airport & runway outlines, navigation beacon frequency, etc) The visual system could display 1023 points (orange or red) at one time. Fun times. :) (the simulator was built in 1967 by Conductron-Missouri) g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind. http://www.diy-cockpits.org/coll - Go Collimated or Go Home. Some people collect things for a hobby. Geeks collect hobbies. ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Environment A Multi-Value database for the masses, not the classes. http://www.scarletdme.org - Get it _today_! Buying desktop hardware and installing a server OS doesn't make a server-class system any more than sitting in a puddle makes you a duck. [Cipher in a.s.r]