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This reminds me of my time spent working as an engineer in BBC television in the late 80s. There was a lot of kit designed and built by the BBC design departmen
by markb139 6y ago
This reminds me of my time spent working as an engineer in BBC television in the late 80s. There was a lot of kit designed and built by the BBC design department. It Was just so well designed, built and documented.
In the 90’s it all started to go digital and less fun to maintain
- hazeii 6y agoYes, I remember them building one of the first digital frame stores at Kingswood Warren, must've been early to mid-80's - huge 14" disk packs with the electronics to digitise/recreate the analogue broadcast-quality video signals ("ah, the smell of a burning disk pack in the morning" - after a head crash). Eventually installed at Television Centre, together with our PDP-11 driven motorised rostrum camera.