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From: ecphssrw@io.csun.edu (Stephen Walton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: C-A Adverts. in magazines
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Date: 31 May 89 22:20:44 GMT
References: <16526@louie.udel.EDU>
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In-reply-to: C503719@umcvmb.missouri.edu (Baird McIntosh)

In article <16526@louie.udel.EDU>, C503719@umcvmb (Baird McIntosh) writes:
>If someone at Commodore knows anything about the
>use of the Amiga to "drive the free-world's largest telescope at Mt. Palomar"
>then please share it with us (or me).

There was an article in AmigaWorld about this, oh maybe two or three
years ago (have I really had my Amiga that long? GAWD!).  Fred Harris
of Caltech built a CCD camera control box which hooked to the side of
an A1000.  It made easy and portable what had been hard, expensive, and
non-portable previously.
    So the ad quote isn't strictly accurate:  the A1000 is being used
for one scientific instrument of many at Palomar.
--
Stephen Walton, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Cal State Univ. Northridge
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