Re: adendum Re: hints and tips for DS 20

[Tom Droege <tdroege@veriomail.com>]

Yep, I do all this by hand patching QBasic code on the fly.  So I make 
mistakes.  Mostly, I think, it is possible to rescue the data.  A terrible 
way to operate.  If someone out there writes operating code that does all 
this properly, I will use it.

Where is Norman Molhant when we need him?  (For newcomers, Norman Molhant 
wrote the run time operating code for the Mark IIIs.

I guess I will just keep cranking out telescope systems until one of the 
monkeys who owns one types an operating system by chance.  ;^)  Let's see, 
one for each star in the sky???

But I am patient.  Someone will eventually do it.  That is the purpose of 
the QBasic code.  I know that you all can't stand it and will have to write 
something better.  ;^)

BTW, the Declination driver code seems still not to be quite right.  The 
Dec. motor current seems to be on at the wrong time to do what is 
needed.  But I think the new Stamp code is OK.  This is next on my list to 
investigate when ROB gets put together and I have a system running in a 
warm room to test.

Tom Droege

At 09:12 PM 12/7/01 -0800, you wrote:

>I noticed that the images in vdark/idark have an image
>type of BIAS, but the EXPTIME appears to be correct.
>
>---- Stupendous Man <richmond@a188-l009.rit.edu>
>wrote:
> >
> >   I'm working on some of the DS data right now, and