On Saturday 12 June 2004 14:30, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Jun 2004, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> > Probably just a "standard" mercury delay line. The RL11 I've got
> > behind me uses one for its write precompenstation, and there are
> > usually lots of them in "older" video equipment (like 70's or early
> > 80's). They do what they sound like, add a delay to a signal, usually
> > on the order tens of microseconds for stuff I've seen.
> >
> > Some early machines used large versions as their primary storage, they
> > functioned somewhat like a (more) solid-state drum memory.
>
> Exactly. So what I should have asked (what I meant to ask) is does
> anyone have any data on this part to determine how long the delay is?
> I'm thinking it would be neat to try to use this (or a number of these
> in series) to create a delay line memory to experiment with.
You should be able to figure that out with a scope and function generator,
if you can't find anything else. : )
Pat
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