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    Four heads...

    Had this for about two years now. This is the core of he most elaborate "garage made" projctor I have ever seen. Its first home was in Chicago at the Cernan Planetarium… I have original console too... Which belongs in a Museum... What I'm not showing is the secret sauce, the beam switching prism array in the back, or the tricky color modulation for the multiplexed lumia wheel. I also got another more modern projector, after all I was just going to get the console, but there was quite a bit more in the storage locker. I took apart the Rainbow on site. It was not, repeat, , not a Rainbow 4, so I did not commit planetarium sacrilege. But the baseline one head Rainbow,, that was there, too big to get home. .. Too much to fit in the car... There are some things that just work better without diodes, and this is one of them. Imagine my surprise when I heard, take the rest.... I just thought there was a console. Leaving a graphite mode CR-52 whitelight there was sad, the optics were toast anyways.

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    Does the console have any interesting features?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Greg View Post
    Does the console have any interesting features?
    Lots of joysticks, dense wire wrapping, and a button marked "catloids". Its also huge, built on a big piece of sheet metal and truly analog..

    Seriously, I'll take a few pics when I get home from work.
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    It's always cool seeing old school hardware. Preserving the history of what got us to our current point is a wonderful pursuit.

    Thanks for sharing the photo Steve!

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    Quote Originally Posted by mixedgas View Post
    Lots of joysticks, dense wire wrapping, and a button marked "catloids". Its also huge, built on a big piece of sheet metal and truly analog..

    Seriously, I'll take a few pics when I get home from work.
    Thanks for the laugh. Maybe it clocks the same chip that the "increase salary" key connects to.

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