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Rebuilding a Chinese forestry steam locomotive for the Festiniog Railway.
to china festiniog forest locomotive narrowgauge rail retrotech steam ... on 28 January
The Development of SCADA and Instrumentation on the GPSS - Tim Whittle, 2013 edit / delete
I was wondering what the odd industrial site with a siding on the railway line to the north of Leuchars is - it's Linkswood GPSS, a fuel depot for Leuchars airfield. History of the system here.
Welcome to the Scanimate Site - history of computer animation - early analog computers - edit / delete
The analogue video synthesiser used for a wide variety of TV animation in the 1970s and 80s.
to animation electronics retrotech scanimate tv video ... on 31 July 2019
PALsite - The home of the PAL video system edit / delete
Sections for early video formats: Betamax, Betacam, U-matic and Video 2000. Lots of information about the formats and the machines.
to betacam betamax electronics retrotech umatic vcr video video2000 ... on 26 July 2019
BetaInfoGuide Homepage edit / delete
A very comprehensive guide to Betamax hardware.
to betamax electronics retrotech video ... on 26 July 2019
Technical Instructions edit / delete
Documentation for a wide range of BBC-designed equipment.
to audio bbc electronics retrotech video ... on 17 July 2019
Linesiding with John Index Page edit / delete
Some amazing pictures of the last remaining industrial users of steam locomotives -- e.g. a few coal mines in China.
to china locomotive mining retrotech steam trains ... on 17 July 2019
NEC uPD6102G datasheet edit / delete
The chip used (or at least carefully emulated) by Pioneer's laserdisc remote controls. This datasheet explains the timings of the protocol.
to electronics ir laserdisc remote retrotech ... on 17 July 2019
Deinterlacing, Scaling, Processing: Classic videogame systems on LCD and Plasma screens edit / delete
Reviews of composite video decoders, from a console gaming perspective.
to interlace ntsc pal retrocomputing retrotech video ... on 17 July 2019
Pioneer CLD-1450 mods edit / delete
I've done the NTSC bypass mod to mine, which works well; you can do it more tidily from the underside of the board. (I suspect the mystery remote control mod he mentions is to the remote control itself, since the two keys are in the same column.)
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tasty by Adam Sampson.