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Perkin Elmer Computer (1Sep92)
(from NSO, NOAO Newsletter No. 31, 1 September 1992)

After many years of service, the Perkin Elmer Computer at the Vacuum
Tower Telescope was turned off and laid to rest on 29 June. The VTT
computer system is now operating a 68030 processor board for telescope
and instrument control and another 68030 for data control. This change
has allowed us to switch from the nine-track tapes to Exabyte tapes.
Both the computers and the tape drives are now located on the rotating
observing table.

Dick Mann, Fritz Stauffer

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