"Oddball"(LGP-30)

[Dave McGuire]

On Jun 30, 2007, at 10:48 AM, dwight elvey wrote:
> I remember writing programs for on of these to solve a statitical  
> problem
> for data on a mass spectrometer. I recall waiting on power up while
> it loaded the data from the metal tape( sometimes it needed to be  
> rebooted ).
> I'd love to find one of these. I alway wanted to see how they  
> dealed with
> the different speeds of the metal tape and the memory. There was no
> exact speed control on the metal tape. It just ran from the spool  
> speed
> with no capstan.

   I'd imagine they just used a phase-locked loop for clock recovery  
and clocked the data into the machine asynchronously.  Is it more  
complex than that?

             -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL