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• Document Release Date: February 7, 2001
• Sequence Number: 47
• Publication Date: January 8, 1965
• Content Type: LETTER

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Post Office Box 6788
Fort Davis Station
Washington 24, D. C.
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Subject:
Contracting Officer
8 January 1965
Ref: LTC 75-1445
Five (5) Copies Monthly Progress
Report No. 3, dated 15 December 1964
Log No. 105-64-29 - Copies 2, S, 4, 5, and 6
In accordance with the report requirements of the subject
contract, we are transmitting herewith Monthly Progress Report
No. 3 for the report period of 1 November through 15 December 1964.
We trust th-%.t this report is complete for your requirements.
However, if any additional information is desired, please feel free to
contact the undersigned.
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PROJECT 105
MONTHLY PROGRESS REPORT NO. 3
1E December 1964
This Document contains information affecting the National Defense
of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
18, U. S. C. , Sections 793 and 7940 the transmission or revelation
of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by
law.
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Section Manager
Data Processing Section
COPY NO. ,3
LOG NO. 105-64-:? 9
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Monthly Progress Report No. 3
15M7ezernbe'r l964
INTRODUCTION
This report covers the status of work accomplished on the 105 Pro-'
gram for November through December 15th.
During the month of November the design as visualized in the two
previous reports was investigated more thoroughly. No major
design changes occurred during this period. All components were
released to the shop for fabrication and were anticipated back by
the end of November. There was a slight delay in some of these
components but all were received by the 10th of December. Final
fabrication of all breadboard units were started by the 10th of
December. Some breadboarding had already received preliminary
testing and the remaining components will be debugged and testing
started by the end of December.
GENERAL CONFIGURATIONS
No major changes have occurred in the general configurations of
the overall unit. Preliminary design work has been started on
the overall layout. An investigation is under way to substantiate
those items which will be displayed on the control panels. Full
information is still not available on the chip holder or chip maga-
zine. However, we are proceeding as requested based upon the
visual observation we saw last August. Assuming this. has not
changed, we do not anticipate any major changes in this area,
unless a radical departure from the early design occurs. It is
our understanding that detailed design prints of these two items
will be furnished by January 15th. We are also assuming a
general type structure for the final chip magazine holder. This
structure is.basek? purely upon guess as we have nothing else.
It should be noted that neither of these items are holding up our
present effort, but some changes may be required at a later date.
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MAGAZINE CONFIGURATION
As anticipated in last month's Progress Report all components were
released for fabrication of the magazine.- These components were
all finished by the 30th of November. Assembly is now on the way
and this particular item will start testing sometime during the month
of December. A flushing or a spritzer method of wetting the film in
the liquid gate is now being adapted to the magazine breadboard. All
consideration shows that from economy of solutions, personal safety,
or rapid drying, this should be the cleanest approach. The maga-
zine breadboard is now in a state of being assembled on the overall
drive breadboard. Facilities are being incorporated so-that at a
later date actual test prints can be made from this breadboard.
DRIVE SYSTEM
The drive system which was previously successfully checked for the
velocity control system is now undergone rework and an investigation
for the tape positioning control is now being tested. Although these
tests are not complete, positional repeatability has been satisfactorily
proven to hold to within one count of the shaft encoder and the control
counter. Actual positioning from a starting point is now being checked.
At the present moment--this a.s being hampered by a servo oscillation.
It is anticipated that the digital drive agetern-adsw=~acity drives - -~-~
system will be married together and testing completed near the end
of December.
FILM RESOLUTION
optical Considerations
Testing in Phase I has been completed in the optical or film resolu-
tion system. A trip with the Customer's technical representative
to earlier this month answered a good many technical
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questions. However, later during the month it became quite ap-
parent to us here that a panchromatic film could be utilized rather
than an ortho film with possible additional advantages, such as
higher resolution and a faster film speed. Contact was made with
both the Customer's technical representative and Eastman Kodak
to find out if this was indeed so, and would we sacrifice anything
to additional graininess or a loss of acuity. Eastman Kodak has
informed us that a panchromatic emulsion may be utilized without
however, they do
loss of quality. They do not object to -
point out that with a transfer function of approximately 35% we,
may anticipate 200 lines per millimeter in However, we
will have a hard time controlling contrast which will tend to be the extreme, especially if developed
adin M which vi would
a film like,
favorable tank developer. y
- which is comparable to a moving picture production film
with a panchromatic emulsion. With the transfer function down
to 30%, we should receive approximately 200 lines per milli-
meter and it is understood that existing chemistry, which can be
easily handled in automatic machiner iYavailable. It was
further pointed out that if necessary,-could have a
panchromatic emulsion. It was not anticipated this would sacri-
fice either resolution or acutance.
ELECTRONICS SYSTEM LOGIC
Work considered during this period was to complete the systems
logic and necessary Phase I wiring diagrams and schematics
which would be necessary for actual wiring of the breadboard for
the positioning of the X System and magazine drive system. The
wiring was completed on the X drive and testing started. A good
deal of time was expended due to several oscillations which had to
be corrected. The usual debugging problems also occurred in
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