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Old 10-05-2012, 02:30 PM
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Pete Deksnis's CT-100 Site back online

We are hosting Pete's site now. Someone had mirrored his site in 2009, and he recently gave us the files. The site hasn't been updated since 2009, but Pete hopes to bring it up to date:

http://www.earlytelevision.org/Deksnis/home_page.html
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Old 10-05-2012, 03:04 PM
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It's great to have it back online, thanks Steve (and Pete)!
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Old 10-05-2012, 03:54 PM
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Well, this deserves some bananas!






Sorry, can't do blue ones
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Old 10-05-2012, 05:34 PM
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Certainly is great news! Pete's site is chock full of great info. Look forward to seeing updates.

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Old 10-05-2012, 10:18 PM
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Finally, something to keep Pete out of the bars!
Thanks to all involved.
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Old 10-06-2012, 12:06 AM
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VERY Good news!

Thanks for hosting it Steve, I am sure Pete will get back on updating it soon, it is such a great reference, it was very sad to think it was thought lost forever.

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Old 10-06-2012, 08:17 AM
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Well, this deserves some bananas!



Sorry, can't do blue ones
I've got the blue bananas:
Back in the days when the NTSC color TV system was being developed, a test color transmission of some fruit was done. Some practical joker took the bananas and painted them blue. In the NTSC color system, the color (more precisely chroma) is encoded onto a subcarrier, the phase indicating which color. Yellow 180o out of phase yields blue. The guy at the receiving test site would adjust the phase (commonly called "tint") to get the bananas right, but then the rest of the fruit would be wrong!
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Old 10-06-2012, 09:06 AM
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I've got the blue bananas:
Back in the days when the NTSC color TV system was being developed, a test color transmission of some fruit was done. Some practical joker took the bananas and painted them blue. In the NTSC color system, the color (more precisely chroma) is encoded onto a subcarrier, the phase indicating which color. Yellow 180o out of phase yields blue. The guy at the receiving test site would adjust the phase (commonly called "tint") to get the bananas right, but then the rest of the fruit would be wrong!

I love that kind of stuff and the explanations. I guess I am warped though (and still not "growed up"). But life is too short...
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Old 10-06-2012, 08:49 PM
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Thank you Steve and everyone who helped with this! Pete's site was one of my favorites and I was saddened to find it gone.
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Old 10-07-2012, 02:49 AM
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Spent 2 hours re-discovering Pete's site. So many memories. Thank you Steve McVoy for hosting it and looking forward to Pete's updates.

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Old 10-07-2012, 07:43 AM
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Please report broken links, missing pictures, etc. I'm sure there are quite a few, since reconstructing the site was mostly manual.
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Please report broken links, missing pictures, etc.
The Wayback machine http://archive.org/web/web.php may have some of this material in its archive.
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Old 10-08-2012, 03:23 PM
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Steve……..Good to have Pete’s CT-100 restoration site back and hope active. I found mention of my 21CT55 in the “CT-100 News and Notice” section, dated 10-15-2007. The picture of the “custom-installed” set was probably the first I took of it after I hauled it down from my attic after a 30+ year hibernation….Tom

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Old 10-12-2012, 04:53 PM
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I am glad to see Pete's pages back online. Thank you for your efforts.
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