An Interesting Control Panel

I was watching "How It's Made" on the Discovery
Channel this morning,
and they were constructing speakers.  As they went to
magnetize the
ferrite ring, I noticed the operator working with an
interesting
three-button control panel.

The button he pressed was a red "Fault"
light/button.  To their left
was a beautiful white "Ready" light/button, and
one marked "Write
Protect".  This strikes me as a very interesting
magnetizing
apparatus.

Josef
-- 
"I laugh because I dare not cry.  This is a crazy
world
 and the only way to enjoy it is to treat it as a
joke."
     -- Hilda "Sharpie" Burroughs,
        "The Number of the Beast" by Robert A.
Heinlein

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Josef Chessor
<josefcubgmail.com> wrote:
>
>  The button he pressed was a red "Fault"
light/button.  To their left
>  was a beautiful white "Ready" light/button,
and one marked "Write
>  Protect".  This strikes me as a very interesting
magnetizing
>  apparatus.

http://www
.youtube.com/watch?v=VN0tmyyC0ak

Here's a link to a video of it.  The control panel in
question appears
right after 2:10.

Josef

On Thursday 28 February 2008, Josef Chessor wrote:
> I was watching "How It's Made" on the
Discovery Channel this morning,
> and they were constructing speakers.  As they went to
magnetize the
> ferrite ring, I noticed the operator working with an
interesting
> three-button control panel.
>
> The button he pressed was a red "Fault"
light/button.  To their left
> was a beautiful white "Ready" light/button,
and one marked "Write
> Protect".  This strikes me as a very interesting
magnetizing
> apparatus.

So I guess I'm not the only one that noticed that they're
using what 
appears to be an RL01/RL02 there...

Pat
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On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Patrick Finnegan
<patcomputer-refuge.org> wrote:
>  > The button he pressed was a red "Fault"
light/button.  To their left
>  > was a beautiful white "Ready"
light/button, and one marked "Write
>  > Protect".  This strikes me as a very
interesting magnetizing
>  > apparatus.
>
>  So I guess I'm not the only one that noticed that
they're using what
>  appears to be an RL01/RL02 there...
>
So that's what it was!  It looked real familiar, but I
haven't
actually seen an RL since I worked at Cypress Semiconductor
in the
late 90s...

-- 
"I laugh because I dare not cry.  This is a crazy
world
 and the only way to enjoy it is to treat it as a
joke."
     -- Hilda "Sharpie" Burroughs,
        "The Number of the Beast" by Robert A.
Heinlein

>I was watching "How It's Made" on the
Discovery Channel this morning,
>and they were constructing speakers.  As they went to
magnetize the
>ferrite ring, I noticed the operator working with an
interesting
>three-button control panel.

>The button he pressed was a red "Fault"
light/button.  To their left
>was a beautiful white "Ready" light/button,
and one marked "Write
>Protect".  This strikes me as a very interesting
magnetizing
>apparatus.


These are definitely swindicators (switches/indicators) from
a DEC RL01
or RL02 drive.  You can see the unit select number has been
"obscured"
in some way (white paint?) on the "READY" switch.

Wonder if they are using just the switch assemblies, or
perhaps using
the big voicecoil positioner of the RL01/RL02 as part of the
system that
magnetizes the ferrite?

Rick Bensene