I made this video, way back when. Very tediously, as I recall, the jvc editing system I was using (rented at $20/hr, I think) wasn't meant for music videos. The music is skewed from the images a bit on this mpeg version of a 3rd generation copy, so you don't get the crisp cuts that the original had, but the quality is quite good, considering.
Anyway, the back story of the video was that UoSAT-2 was "lost" shortly after launch - the transmitter was off and it we couldn't make contact, making the words of the song relevant to those of us who had worked 24 hours a day to get it ready. I worked on the UoSat-2 DCE (digital communications experiment) one of the first non-military store and forward communications systems. After about 10 weeks, communications was established through sheer tenaciousness by the command crew (Neville Bean). A three instruction program was written in the DCE to bypass a failed command data path, and UoSAT-2 has been in business ever since. The whole thing made for great stories, damaging a big radio telescope trying to track fast enough to hear the local oscillator on the receiver (it did), talking the British truck driver into letting me drive the spacecraft from LAX to Vandenberg because he kept trying to shift the rented truck with the break instead of the clutch (I had to let him drive my new Firebird), etc.
There is an in-joke every 10 seconds, though I haven't written them down in 20 years. Maybe next anniversary.
To answer the usual question, the main processor is an 1802, the DCE has an NEC800 Z80/like processor. No Unix. - Harold
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I made this video, way back when. Very tediously, as I recall, the jvc editing system I was using (rented at $20/hr, I think) wasn't meant for music videos. The music is skewed from the images a bit on this mpeg version of a 3rd generation copy, so you don't get the crisp cuts that the original had, but the quality is quite good, considering. Anyway, the back story of the video was that UoSAT-2 was "lost" shortly after launch - the transmitter was off and it we couldn't make contact, making the words of the song relevant to those of us who had worked 24 hours a day to get it ready. I worked on the UoSat-2 DCE (digital communications experiment) one of the first non-military store and forward communications systems. After about 10 weeks, communications was established through sheer tenaciousness by the command crew (Neville Bean). A three instruction program was written in the DCE to bypass a failed command data path, and UoSAT-2 has been in business ever since. The whole thing made for great stories, damaging a big radio telescope trying to track fast enough to hear the local oscillator on the receiver (it did), talking the British truck driver into letting me drive the spacecraft from LAX to Vandenberg because he kept trying to shift the rented truck with the break instead of the clutch (I had to let him drive my new Firebird), etc. There is an in-joke every 10 seconds, though I haven't written them down in 20 years. Maybe next anniversary. To answer the usual question, the main processor is an 1802, the DCE has an NEC800 Z80/like processor. No Unix. - Harold