Planetarium Star Projectors

[polishedball]

I will be making an appearance over there in the near future with an assortment of laser gear to get his ion lasers up and running/ tested/ cleaned.

Thank you! Will be neat to see this in it glory.

[SpitzSTP]

Industrial rackmount chassis, for the QM32 so I can get it all in the rack. The backplane has both ISA and PCI slots.

[SpitzSTP]

Omniscan cards in the rack, dust bunnies evicted.

[polishedball]

Have you a shot of the pile of cables for this project, or do you have to re-cable it all fresh?

[SpitzSTP]

Have you a shot of the pile of cables for this project, or do you have to re-cable it all fresh?

All cables were pulled through conduit and saved without cutting. Some are for the starmachine, the only challenge will be to dig them out of the box. Some of these were a royal pain to retrieve, floor plates covering raceways had to be pulled up and individual cables related to the laser controllers extracted from a mass of lasagna.

[SpitzSTP]

Second server installed in Minolta rack. Space left beneath the HD24 for a tape ADAT machine (thanks polishedball!!!) and a rackmount 4U server for the QM32.

[SpitzSTP]

I was honored with a visit from Steve today, a retired science teacher from the school in Indiana where he worked with this Minolta Series IIB star projector that I pulled out in June. His career with this instrument spanned from 1981 to 1998 and I was pleased to show him the progress of the re-assembly. This is a sample of the human connection behind these machines and the remarkable legacy that they represent. I was able to secure his autograph inside one of the Minolta control consoles. I just wanted to share it with you, hope you don't mind.

[DZ]

Spitz, that's awesome, I'm sure I've meet Steve on a road trip with JHE to Mishawaka. I think that's where I first meet Rick Pirko (late) from YSU. He use to join Joe on many road trips. Learned a lot from that guy. How about some pics of the omniscan in action?!

[SpitzSTP]

Spitz, that's awesome, I'm sure I've meet Steve on a road trip with JHE to Mishawaka. I think that's where I first meet Rick Pirko (late) from YSU. He use to join Joe on many road trips. Learned a lot from that guy. How about some pics of the omniscan in action?!

Thanks DZ. I thought perhaps you met Steve at some point in the past given your affiliation with JHE, these guys are very interesting to talk to. Small world really. Operation of the Omniscan will be largely dependent upon the power plant, it needs to have the exhaust system attached at the manifold and a pipe to port the exhaust outside, and a fuel tank added.

[Bradfo69]

I've got nothing special to add. I just wanted to give the thread a "bump" so it's not "out of sight, out of mind.". It's been a truly facinating read since day one when I first saw it and, it hasn't gotten any activity in over a month. Someday, I think helping out on one of these "warrior weekends" would be an incredible experience. Something to go in my "bucket list".