Abandoned Power Plant

[Jr460]

They missed lot of things.  Got some others wrong.

The first thing I noticed was them stating that is the turbine and point to the generator rotor saying that has the blades on it.   Wow that was fancy cover for the rotor, we used to just put some heavy clear plastic over it, and then put a few work lights on the ground under it to drive off moisture.   Noticed the humidity sensor note on the cover.

When they got up a level and then looked down at full turbine body, right next to them on the ground were a few diaphragms, as they are called.  The fixed blades/vanes between stages in the turbine.

Never saw and good sized valves, they one they pointed out was not that big for a power plant and was manual operated.  Let's see the turbine control valves and the hydraulics that power them.  How about the feed lines, that would have been impressive.

I wanted to yell at the screen when they saw on the wall some layout/diagrams of the plant.   Take a good hi-res picture of those, study them and come back now that you have a map of the place.

And yea the small disk packs, kids these days.   

[t_ryner]

So, on closer inspection, what was in my classroom was not what the other scope. I am unsure what it actually is  . I'll probably post this on the TEA thread too BTW.
- https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0T3gelonW2VeHFDd25GT3VLN0U

[TerraHertz]

I wanted to yell at the screen when they saw on the wall some layout/diagrams of the plant.   Take a good hi-res picture of those, study them and come back now that you have a map of the place.

Ha ha, yeah I actually did yell at the screen there. Maps like that are gold.
I'd have unscrewed the cover sheets and taken the best photos I could. Or maybe just taken the maps. There's no point playing 'no one was here', since there are obvious signs of other explorers passing through. And the maps were moldy- photos wouldn't have been great.

[schmitt trigger]

About that Eico 460 scope:

This particular instrument must have been used exclusively for monitoring a waveform and no more.
The reason I say this, is because instruments whose labels are screen-printed and have seen heavy use (for instance, the vertical attenuator) in a lab environment, the letters tend to rub-off and disappear.

Not with this one. The instrument is pristine, a real collectible. Some scuff marks on the bezel, that is all.

[aqarwaen]

here is new video,i guess its same power plant.......

[TerraHertz]

here is new video,i guess its same power plant.......

No, a different and older one. Also very much further down the path of entropic decay.

[Gyro]

At 39:40 there's what looks to be an HP246x terminal. We used to use the HP2645s in my first job for for editing assembler source code. It had two 3M tape cartridges which allowed you to edit from one cartridge to the other - ASCII text could be streamed from the left hand tape, through the screen buffer for editing and then onto the right hand tape, one way only! If you missed an edit then you had to scroll it right through to the end of the tape and do it again.

Cartridge stalls were a common, as were stall retries causing the drives to miss the end of tape optical recognition holes and spool off the end. Requiring cartridge disassembly and re-threading. A real pain in the ass when you were trying to do a quick edit! These were the high tech beasts everything else was paper tape, including bootstrapping the assembler and the linker and finally the object code.

The only good thing about those terminals was that the HP service guy showed us how to swap a 4k memory card from one terminal to another, providing the 8k necessary to run the HP bootleg version of Space Invaders. It was pretty common to see two of the four terminals with their screens hinged up at lunch time, with lucky players hogging the other two. The practice eventually got stamped on due to worries about ESD and edge connector wear!