Posted by Michael A. Terrell on June 4, 2010, 2:24 am
Joel Koltner wrote:
>
> > Good. You don't want to hang around an Army base. Even if there was
> > a nice highway to Dothan. I remember ch 4? from Dothan while I was
> > building that TV station in Destin. They still started their broadcast
> > day with a farm report, and their weather forcast used '50s props. That
> > was in the early '90s.
>
> You could've offered to upgrade them to Commodore 64s, Michael -- I remember
> several small (very little funding) TV stations that used'em for graphics or
> the electronic program guide. :-)
I was across the state line. I was using my Commodore SX-64 for a
character generator to test the transmitter as I rebuilt it.
Anyway, I think their TelePrompTer was the original hand cranked
model. The one that used what looked like old piano rolls. There was
nothing high tech about that station. It may have still been all B&W
when I was stationed at Ft. Rucker in the early '70s.
BTW, that was when I saw my first character generator for NTSC. The
local cable company bought it. It used diode arrays to generate the
characters.
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Posted by Richard Henry on June 4, 2010, 5:25 pm
> > Good. You don't want to hang around an Army base. Even if there was
> > a nice highway to Dothan. I remember ch 4? from Dothan while I was
> > building that TV station in Destin. They still started their broadcast
> > day with a farm report, and their weather forcast used '50s props. That
> > was in the early '90s.
> You could've offered to upgrade them to Commodore 64s, Michael -- I remember
> several small (very little funding) TV stations that used'em for graphics or
> the electronic program guide. :-)
Amigas were all over TV stations in the 80's.
Posted by Michael A. Terrell on June 4, 2010, 5:30 pm
Richard Henry wrote:
>
> >
> > > Good. You don't want to hang around an Army base. Even if there was
> > > a nice highway to Dothan. I remember ch 4? from Dothan while I was
> > > building that TV station in Destin. They still started their broadcast
> > > day with a farm report, and their weather forcast used '50s props. That
> > > was in the early '90s.
> >
> > You could've offered to upgrade them to Commodore 64s, Michael -- I remember
> > several small (very little funding) TV stations that used'em for graphics or
> > the electronic program guide. :-)
>
> Amigas were all over TV stations in the 80's.
Not the ones I saw in the late '80s. I took a 12 year breead from
broadcast between the ealy '70s and late '80s.
What I did see was a lot of Cyron equipment, along with a little
Squeezezoom.
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Posted by krw@att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz on June 4, 2010, 3:33 am
On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 22:02:51 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell"
>"krw@att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz" wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 05:48:44 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell"
>>
>> >
>> >"krw@att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz" wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:47:48 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell"
>> >>
>> >> >
>> >> >Joel Koltner wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >> > I bought a rechargeable drill from them awhile back, and the NiCd
>> >> >> > battery charger doesn't even have a sensor telling when charging is
>> >> >> > done. You have to guess when it's done charging.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> It's probably just a transformer->rectifier->resistor->battery, set to
charge
>> >> >> at a C/10 rate or thereabouts.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> So you just wait ~12 hours or so and you're guaranteed it's fully
charged --
>> >> >> no guessing necessary. :-)
>> >> >>
>> >> >> There was a time, not that long ago, when most battery chargers were
this, um,
>> >> >> "featureless!"
>> >> >>
>> >> >> > Dad wanted to buy same drill (on sale for $5); I talked him out of
>> >> >> > it.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Sounds like it might be worth $5, actually...
>> >> >>
>> >> >> I think Harbor Freight is a good example of (1) you tend to get what
you pay
>> >> >> for and (2) advertising leads many people to believe they need a lot
more than
>> >> >> they really do. Their "value for the dollar" is actually pretty good --
>> >> >> unlike a well-known brand name where the "image" can sometimes be much
>> >> >> flashier than what you're really getting (counting on many people never
>> >> >> recognizing as much -- see #2), with Harbor Freight it's pretty clear
exactly
There's also Ft. Bennington, in Columbus. The new Infantry Museum is really
nice. Some of the exhibits are still unfinished but it's a beautiful place.
>Even if there was a nice highway to Dothan.
All the highways around here are nice (no frost heaves). US451 is 4-lane,
except for a couple of miles North of Eufaula.
>I remember ch 4? from Dothan while I was
>building that TV station in Destin. They still started their broadcast
>day with a farm report, and their weather forcast used '50s props. That
>was in the early '90s.
It's not uncommon for Midwest stations to start their news with the farm
report. Radio stations used to do them from 12:00 to 1:00, when the farmers
were in for lunch.
Posted by Richard Henry on June 4, 2010, 5:28 pm
wrote:
You shouls have seen Across the Fence around noon on Ch. 3 when you
were living in Vt.
I remember after my grandmother first got TV in the old farmhouse in
North Fayston sitting with her at lunch eating fried egg sandwiches
watching that show.
> > Good. You don't want to hang around an Army base. Even if there was
> > a nice highway to Dothan. I remember ch 4? from Dothan while I was
> > building that TV station in Destin. They still started their broadcast
> > day with a farm report, and their weather forcast used '50s props. That
> > was in the early '90s.
>
> You could've offered to upgrade them to Commodore 64s, Michael -- I remember
> several small (very little funding) TV stations that used'em for graphics or
> the electronic program guide. :-)