dna@dsd.UUCP (02/25/84)
Posted: Wed Feb 8, 1984 9:48 PM GMT Msg: GGIE-1713-5938 From: MSWEETING To: HPRICE/AMSAT Subj: UoB Status Harold, I have just sent the following to Larry in response to a number of (unanswered) requests for a status of the UoB project. The status was that we had no time to let anyone know the status - i.e. blind panic!! Larry, Sorry for neglecting you all over the past few days, but all hell broke loose!! We have all been averaging 3 to 4 hours sleep, but excluding waking periods of up to 60 hours in the process. The DCE has been tested using the harness simulator after the thermal vacuum tests and continues to function perfectly, bar the memory bit fault which we saw when Harold was here. We could not test the DCE directly during thermal vac. due to a problem decoding data from the receivers and the impossibility of using the umbilical connector to feed the DCE. The 1802 route would have worked if I had spotted the trivial bug in the 'echo' program - too little sleep. Both comms problems are now resolved, so we should have no problem at Vandenburg. Just one query - Harold increased the delay time on the TRS-80 Mdl 100 to take account of the delay through 2 uarts - does this allow sufficient for the 1802 computer as well? UoSAT-B and almost all the equipment in our lab has been packed this afternoon for shipping (on the same flight as ourselves) to Washington on Thursday morning. The evening is being spent sorting out all our outstanding correspondence and finding the bits left behind. We will be releasing more UoSAT-B documentation as soon as possible now, the publication and distribution is set up and the route back will be via Telemail.