panoramic spectrum analyzer
@tubetime my timeline again reminding me that I'm missing it! If only I was better at calendars than mastodon
@tubetime The world needs more machines that feature “FOCUS” and “INTENSIFIER” knobs.
that's a weird dsub connector
@tubetime I guess it‘s a not-so-sub-D connector 😏 (sounds funny but could be true, as sub stands for subminiature)
@tubetime I don’t think that’s a sub. Just a D
@tubetime D-RANGED connector
@tubetime Nerdsniped again:
Panoramic Electronics, Inc, filed an S1 in 1961 https://www.sec.gov/news/digest/1961/dig081761.pdf
Marcel (not Marsellus🙂 ) Wallace was chairman, he had founded Panoramic Radio Corp and had patented the "panoramic display" in th4e late 1930s.
The first patent strays off into aircraft etc. navigation ideas: https://patents.google.com/patent/US2279151A/en
Brief history of companies here: https://www.radiomuseum.org/dsp_hersteller_detail.cfm?company_id=10685
NASA Mercury connection: https://people.ohio.edu/postr/bapix/SB8b.htm
Out oscillated by HP: https://www.hpmemoryproject.org/wb_pages/wall_b_page_04.htm
@tubetime my timeline again reminding me that I'm missing it! If only I was better at calendars than mastodon