Camera Head Parts Arrive

[Tom Droege <droege@wwa.com>]

UPS Just dropped off 10 sets of camera head parts.  I will take a picture
and post it in a few days.  

Mike and Dan are here working, so the factory has started production.  I
fixed the number 2 memory card, so we now have two working memory cards and
two more nearly assembled.  

The plan is to build 8 MASTERs in parallel.  OK, we will actually build one
and test it and then build seven more.  I have done enough testing of the
electronics so that I know that everything is going to work.  So we will
build probably 10 sets of electronics, then build one mechanical prototype,
and then buy parts for 10 or so more.  

I have pretty well picked out the homes for the first eight.

0)  Tom Droege, Chicage
1)  Arne Henden, Flagstaff
2)  Paczynski/Pojmanski, Los Campanas
3)  Albertson/Brown, Mt. Wilson?
4)  Gombert & Co., Dayton
5)  Gutzwiller & Co., Cincinnati
6)  Richmond & Co., Rochester
7)  Beser & Co, Maryland

The first three are more or less in the order that I expect to deliver.
After theat the priority will depend on whatever seems appropriate to all.  

This is a big job.  I hope that all of you will try to recruit local
helpers.  

I also hope that you will start to organize a "users" group to divide up
the software work.  I have some ideas about who might best do what, but I
think that will be up to you all to sort out.  I will not need much to test
the prototype.

I will volunteer to write a diagnostic program to test a camera system and
give some clue as to what might be wrong.  It will be written in QBasic,
but I can compile it, and it will then run on any system (for example a DOS
window in Windows) that will allow I/O.

I am excited.  The production line has started.

Tom Droege