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WINDCO television equipment (10). McIDAS First Generation, user at the WINDCO terminal.

Dr. Verner Suomi obtained funding from NASA and NOAA to implement a proof-of concept system dedicated to measuring and visualizing cloud drift winds. The new…

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Windco television equipment (09). J. T. Young seated at Windco terminal. See also SL0416 taken at same time. Early prototype of McIDAS. See also SL0411-SL0418 and SL0645-SL0651 for photographs of related equipment taken at the same time.. Space…

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WINDCO television equipment (08). View of terminal screen. Figure 7: Use of radar images of clouds will permit McIDAS to align images absolutely as well as relatively. In addition to making all measuring processes fully automatic, this will allow…

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WINDCO television equipment (07). View of monitor screen. Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Negative sleeve labeled 1282-72-3. Robert Krauss. WINDCO television display. 18 May 1972. See also SL0411-SL0418…

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WINDCO television equipment (06). Technician seated at terminal, view of interior of tape machine. Full page image appears on page iv in McIDAS: An interim report on the development of the Man-computer Interactive Data Access System. SSEC…

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WINDCO television equipment (05). Figure 8: Ampex DR-10 Videodisk. The videodisk provides storage for over 600 separate TV frames. Video sync is governed by an optical tachometer mechanically coupled to the disk. During loading, a gated oscillator…

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WINDCO television equipment (04). Negative sleeve labeled 1136-7214. Terry Schwalemberg. WINDCO experiment television equipment. Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison. 2 copies of negative. See also…

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WINDCO television equipment (03). Front view of television screen with display.. Negative sleeve labeled 1136-72-8. Terry Schwalemberg. WINDCO experiment television equipment. Space Science and Engineering Center, University of…

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WINDCO television equipment (02). Negative sleeve labeled 1136-72-3. Terry Schwalemberg. WINDCO experiment television equipment. Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison. See also SL0411-SL0418 and SL0645-SL0651 for…

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WINDCO television equipment (01). Negative sleeve labeled 1136-72-2. Terry Schwalemberg. WINDCO experiment television equipment. Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison. See also SL0411-SL0418 and SL0645-SL0651 for…
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