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RobertB
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posted 08-18-2019 04:06 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for RobertB   Click Here to Email RobertB     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I've read that because more people needed to see the contents of projection plotters and consoles that were actually available, some plotters/consoles in the MCC had cameras focused on them and were then distributed via televisions.

Are there any images of this hybrid system in action?

Buel
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posted 08-19-2019 04:23 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Buel   Click Here to Email Buel     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
This from Jerry Bostick:
Most SSRs had a small table with a camera vertically above it. If you put a graph or anything else that you wanted to show to others, they could call up the channel number and see it.
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RobertB
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posted 08-20-2019 11:28 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for RobertB   Click Here to Email RobertB     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I was hoping to see this in action

oly
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Are you referring to the graph plots and data lines displayed on the screens at the mission controllers consoles and also projected on the large screens within mission control?

The small mission controller console screens were televisions, used to display information from a remote location. Personal computers and monitors had not yet been developed.

RobertB
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posted 08-21-2019 02:08 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for RobertB   Click Here to Email RobertB     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Most SSRs had a small table with a camera vertically above it.
I'd like to see a picture of the small table with the camera pointed at the SSR.

Buel
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posted 08-25-2019 03:13 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Buel   Click Here to Email Buel     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Update here from Gerry Griffin;
I'm not sure what he means by "consoles"... we never projected pictures of a MCC console on TV. I do remember seeing projected images of strip chart plotters on a screen on the front wall of the MOCR (the "Eidophor" system could back-project a TV on the front wall screens). It was only done when there was something of general interest/curiosity, like an SIVB stage of the Saturn hitting the moon and shaking the seismograph sensors set in place by a previous crew on the moon... or a crew splashing down in the ocean and getting to the carrier, etc.

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