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The interior was redone with equipment benches and such. It was the old days before high tech! Pre computers, this was the 70s. Any digital stuff was totally dedicated equipment for recording data, but he said they used analog sensors and paper tape for a long time nad they spent a lot of time measuring and marking up the paper recordings by hand to do the evaluations. Im sure near the end for him most it was going digital and at least data recorded digitally. Even on my dad’s oceanography ship many measurements were still on paper rolls with either ink pens or electrostatic discharge pens and folks measured things by hand well into the 80s. It was a different world pre computer and hard to sort of imagine if you grew up with computers around you. I got into computers really early as a kid but still experienced a lot of the old analog world. Even in grad school in the 80s many of our equipment did not have much if any digital outputs and the ones that did were a bit clunky, especially by today’s standards. It was funny trying to get data out of some of the equipment in to the mac as they had a serial port and the data could be dumped but not much if anything had been created to interface a computer with it yet.

 

It was funny as he said he worked on the railroads and I asked what he did nad he said i was an engineer which i assumed the wrong kind of engineer. Apparently good up the job as an internship getting his engineering degree and kept on doing it for a lot of his career. Later he said he did ultrasonic stuff on wheels and welds.

 

jeff