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Tuesday, December 9, 2025

Some Great Analog Pictures from MIT Building 20 and other Analog Locations

Here is a picture of Jim Williams taken through a Tektronix oscilloscope camera.  I never used one of these things, but Dean KK4DAS did.  Here are the details of the shot: 

I took this great photo of Jim Williams with a Tek scope camera sometime around 1977 or so. There was no digital (or analog) manipulation. It was a simple double exposure. I first shot a scope waveform, then just to see what would happen, I pulled the camera off the scope, stuck it Jim’s face and snapped another shot before pulling the film. I never expected it to look this good….a view from inside the oscilloscope!

Here is the collection of pictures that this 'scope shot came from: 

https://lensprojects.com/analog-history/

Thanks to Len Sherman for the pictures.  On his site you will see, among other things, the upside down Christmas Tree of dead parts, and Bob Pease's Volkswagen Beetle. 

More info on MIT's Building 20: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_20


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