[SML] turning off light boards

[Jason Salvatori]

We turn off our Ion nightly.  When we used to have an Express, it
stayed on 24/7, 365.  We had issues of dimmers ghosting on when DMX
signal was lost.  I think perhaps it was a pin 1 problem in the
console.

Jason

On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 10:09 PM, Alf Sauve' via Stagecraft
<stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:
> An urban legend about that.   The main entrance to Johnson Space Center
> wasn't actually Houston, but a little berg called, Webster.   It's just a
> little main street with a couple dozen stores.  (Or was in those days)  One
> of those stores being a mom-pop office supply.   The story goes that one of
> the astronauts bought a calculator with his own money and took it on one of
> the flights as personal gear to test out.   The little store supposedly had
> a sign in their window for years about how they had supplied the first
> hand-held calculator in space.  Now this may not have been the "official"
> first, but given how slowly any government agency moves I tend to believe
> this legend.
>
> On 11/25/2015 7:38 PM, Phil Haney via Stagecraft wrote:
>
>
> "The first advanced desktop calculators hit the market in roughly the same
> time frame, with scientific and then programmable pocket calculators
> appearing during the following decade. The first programmable handheld
> calculator, the HP-65, was tried on backup computations aboard the Apollo
> Command/Service Module in the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975."
>
>
>
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