News Old Moon Images Get Modern Makeover

[ozone]

Interesting article; They may have found the Apollo 11 tapes too.
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/090331-st-moon-views-makeover.html

 

[Unstung]

The outcome may be interesting, although the original - untouched - pictures remain historic.

 

[Notebook]

Interesting, I think the Ampex FR-900 could have been the base model the VR-1000 was built from.

http://videopreservation.stanford.edu/museum/

Never worked with one of those, did get my hands on these though.

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Now that was a VTR machine.

Edit:-
From a friend who is into old tape machines:

OK on the FR-300, I'm not familiar with that particular m/c, but the FR series were analogue instrumentation recorders.
I think they would have been similar to the Honeywell 7600 series which I worked on at Zonal films in the 60's. They were multitrack recorders generally 1/2" or 1" with up to 16 tracks, they were multi speed from 1-7/8 ips- 120ips and had very accurate capstan servos with vacuum bins for supply and take up tension control.
You could record audio or data with normal a/c bias or FM saturation record. I seem to remember that at the max speed you could record up to about 1.5MHz with a 3dB roll off.
Coo that brought back some memories.

N.