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From: rainer@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Rainer Malzbender)
Subject: Re: Laser show controllers?
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In article <4449@polari.UUCP> miker@polari.UUCP (Mike Ranta) writes:
>In article <1840048@hpsad.HP.COM> frankb@hpsad.HP.COM (Frank Ball) writes:
>>I bought an old laser disc player surplus for $70 (no there aren't any more).
>>It has a He Ne laser and X-Y deflection mirrors.  The mirrors were controlled
>
>This is a new one to me.  Every CD player I've ever seen uses an infrared 

Laser disc player doesn't mean CD player. A friend of mine used an old
laser disc player to make a 3D digitizer, and I'm fairly certain it also
had a HeNe and mirrors in it.

--
Rainer Malzbender 
Dept. of Physics (303)492-6829 
U. of Colorado, Boulder         rainer@boulder.colorado.edu 128.138.240.246
