From: skunk-works-digest-owner@mail.orst.edu To: skunk-works-digest@mail.orst.edu Subject: Skunk Works Digest V5 #463 Reply-To: skunk-works-digest@mail.orst.edu Errors-To: skunk-works-digest-owner@mail.orst.edu Precedence: bulk Skunk Works Digest Monday, 16 October 1995 Volume 05 : Number 463 In this issue: info needed-special purpose equipment See the end of the digest for information on subscribing to the skunk-works or skunk-works-digest mailing lists and on how to retrieve back issues. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: TRADER@cup.portal.com Date: Sun, 15 Oct 95 22:47:36 PDT Subject: info needed-special purpose equipment Given the backgrounds and knowledge of people in this newsgroup, perhaps someone out there can give me some information. A feasibility study is being conducted for an intelligence collection platform. The following items would be needed: * A CCD panchromatic (i.e., B&W) sensor with a resolution of between 512x512 pixels to 1024x1024 pixels. It has not been decided whether an optical or near-IR digital sensor should be used. The minimum range should be 5 bits (32 shades of gray), although 8 bits would be preferable. * A digital tape recorder capable of storing at least 100 MBytes in a standard format, such as one of the QIC formats. * These two items should be lightweight and compact. They should be capable of operations down to 0 degrees Centigrade and be sealable against moisture. Also, they would probably be under microprocessor control. * Power would be provided by a 12 Volt DC or 24 Volt DC source, which means that smaller voltages could be produced with voltage regulator circuits. Total power required for both items should be 75 Watts or less. * military surplus equipment (in working condition) would be preferable. Thanks in advance for any leads or advice you might have. Paul McGinnis / TRADER@cup.portal.com / PaulMcG@aol.com http://www.portal.com/~trader/secrecy.html ------------------------------ End of Skunk Works Digest V5 #463 ********************************* To subscribe to skunk-works-digest, send the command: subscribe skunk-works-digest in the body of a message to "majordomo@mail.orst.edu". If you want to subscribe something other than the account the mail is coming from, such as a local redistribution list, then append that address to the "subscribe" command; for example, to subscribe "local-skunk-works": subscribe skunk-works-digest local-skunk-works@your.domain.net To unsubscribe, send mail to the same address, with the command: unsubscribe skunk-works-digest in the body. Administrative requests, problems, and other non-list mail can be sent to either "skunk-works-digest-owner@mail.orst.edu" or, if you don't like to type a lot, "prm@mail.orst.edu A non-digest (direct mail) version of this list is also available; to subscribe to that instead, replace all instances of "skunk-works-digest" in the commands above with "skunk-works". Back issues are available for anonymous FTP from mail.orst.edu, in /pub/skunk-works/digest/vNN.nMMM (where "NN" is the volume number, and "MMM" is the issue number).