Ah, that is too bad.
Michael sent me a box box full of Amplifone lab books, miscellaneous
data, etc. Unfortunately, very little related specifically to Atari. A
lot of it was lab note books which detailed Amplifone's reverse
engineering and comparison of industrial monitors, waveform pictures,
etc. Very dry reading material ;)
The most interesting thing I did find in the stack of papers was this
Amplifone High Voltage Transformer Design document:
http://www.ionpool.net/arcade/amplifone/transformer_design.pdf
Again, not specifically related to the Atari contracted design, but
interesting nonetheless.
tm
MKDUD@aol.com wrote:
>
> While I commented on Chris' HV problem, I figured I'd share
> something Amplifone related.
> I recently learned that Jack Hammond (former Amplifone employee)
> died on December 29th at the age of 88. I spoke with his son about 4
> days ago.
> If you didn't know, Jack had provided a TON (and I mean almost
> literally, right Tom??) of Amplifone notebooks, tech journals,
> manuals, and other books that he salvaged from the Amplifone factory.
> His son says that he has some more books to send me (though not nearly
> as many as before). I will let the list know when I get them, and what
> all is there. I think Tom might have a list of what Jack has allready
> provided if anybody on the list needs anything.
> Jack gave me the Amplifone info (in my Amplifone Faq) about Atari
> buying them out, and also about the trash can fire in the warehouse.
> Jack's account of the Atari buyout seems to be right on, but there are
> questions about the warehouse fire. I only hope my mind works as well
> as his if I live to be over 80, even though the warehouse fire might
> be Atari "lore" according to some knowledgeable Atari people.
> If anybody has any other info on this, PLEASE let me know. Jed's
> thoughts are in the faq, (following the "History" section), he is one
> person who doubts Jack's story.
> However, a few others seem to recall something of the fire. One
> person who does is Frank Ballouz, "Because it was another damn delay
> in getting us monitors..."
>
> If anybody has anything on this, please e-mail me. It would be
> nice to actually find out what happened....You can e-mail me, rather
> than load the list with this stuff, I really don't know if anyone is
> actually interested.
>
> Thanks, and sorry to ramble,
> MK
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