Isolinear chip dimensions
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GodThingFormerly
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Rick Sternbach or Mike Okuda would very likely know the answer to your question.
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Since they were basically little slips of plexiglass, with silkscreened "circuitry" on them, I'd think you could almost use any size you wanted. There's no indicate that there's a "standard form-factor" across all 24th-century technology (in fact, we know that Cardassians used cylinders rather than slips).
That said, your best bet for guestimating the size and construction is to use the TNG tech manual (software) for visual reference and the episode "The Naked Now" for size reference. The (software) tech manual has a Quicktime VR "spinnable" image of one of the standard "isolinear optical chip" props. But you can't tell scale, there.
I suspect that, if you really dig into the Tech manual, the dims used on the 1701D would be found in the text.
That said, your best bet for guestimating the size and construction is to use the TNG tech manual (software) for visual reference and the episode "The Naked Now" for size reference. The (software) tech manual has a Quicktime VR "spinnable" image of one of the standard "isolinear optical chip" props. But you can't tell scale, there.
I suspect that, if you really dig into the Tech manual, the dims used on the 1701D would be found in the text.
The God Thing said:
Rick Sternbach or Mike Okuda would very likely know the answer to your question.
*rubs lamp*
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The pile of standard original chips I have from TNG measure about 1" x 3". I can't find an exact set of dimensions in the TNG TM. Chips were fabricated from 1/8" colored plexi with silkscreened circuit patterns. Later chips were all sorts of shapes and sizes and colors; I've got a few different ones somewhere in a box but can't get at them to measure.
Rick
www.spacemodelsystems.com
GodThingFormerly
A Different Kind of Asshole
^ Thanks, Rick! If I may ask, do you happen to recall any details/anecdotes about the optronic innards of the consoles created for ST:TMP? Aside from the android Ash in Ridley Scott's Alien that was pretty much the first visible use of fiber-optic technology in a science fiction film (as far as I can tell, anyway). 
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Rick Sternbach said:
The God Thing said:
Rick Sternbach or Mike Okuda would very likely know the answer to your question.
*rubs lamp*
TGT
The pile of standard original chips I have from TNG measure about 1" x 3". I can't find an exact set of dimensions in the TNG TM. Chips were fabricated from 1/8" colored plexi with silkscreened circuit patterns. Later chips were all sorts of shapes and sizes and colors; I've got a few different ones somewhere in a box but can't get at them to measure.
Rick
www.spacemodelsystems.com
Sounds about like the size of a blank microscope slide.
Rick Sternbach said:
The God Thing said:
Rick Sternbach or Mike Okuda would very likely know the answer to your question.
*rubs lamp*
TGT
The pile of standard original chips I have from TNG measure about 1" x 3". I can't find an exact set of dimensions in the TNG TM. Chips were fabricated from 1/8" colored plexi with silkscreened circuit patterns. Later chips were all sorts of shapes and sizes and colors; I've got a few different ones somewhere in a box but can't get at them to measure.
Rick
www.spacemodelsystems.com
Hey, Thank you so much Rick! The chip size and shape I'm trying to emulate the most is indeed the one illustrated in the TM and displayed in the Interactive TM. Thank you so much for your help!
now I've gotta haul out my old interactive tech manual and see if I can get it to work with XP!
This is one of the things that I literally cannot make work under XP SP2. (It worked fine with the original release of XP, though.)foravalon said:
Rick Sternbach said:
The God Thing said:
Rick Sternbach or Mike Okuda would very likely know the answer to your question.
*rubs lamp*
TGT
The pile of standard original chips I have from TNG measure about 1" x 3". I can't find an exact set of dimensions in the TNG TM. Chips were fabricated from 1/8" colored plexi with silkscreened circuit patterns. Later chips were all sorts of shapes and sizes and colors; I've got a few different ones somewhere in a box but can't get at them to measure.
Rick
www.spacemodelsystems.com
Hey, Thank you so much Rick! The chip size and shape I'm trying to emulate the most is indeed the one illustrated in the TM and displayed in the Interactive TM. Thank you so much for your help!
now I've gotta haul out my old interactive tech manual and see if I can get it to work with XP!
The reason is that the software used Quicktime, and specifically a 16-bit version of Quicktime, for the majority of its "multimedia" rendering, both movies, images, and "VR" scenes and objects.
I suspect, though I haven't tested this yet, that it will work perfectly fine if you run it within a Win9x installation in "Virtual PC" however. I was able to make the "Klingon" and "Borg" interactive movies work in there, and both of them also used Quicktime.
Virtual PC is free software (Microsoft used to charge a lot of money for it but so many people bitched about it that they finally figured out that it SHOULD have been provided with XP or Vista in the first place, so they let you get it free now).
Go to this link:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/virtualpc/default.mspx
There are dimensions somewhere in the TNG tech manual; I used them a few years back to get some plexiglass cut to make isolinear chips for an art project. My tech manual is in the room where the baby's asleep, otherwise I'd dig it out and find the specs.
Unfortunately, it's not in the TNG Tech Manual. The section on Isolinear chips is on page 43, and like Rick said, no dimensions are to be found. So I'll just have to sorta cheat it; which is still cool. Using the 1"x3" as a rough measure I tried to scale some pics I found with photoshop to fake it, So here's crossing my fingers That I can find some suitable building materials.
Not having worked with any kind of silk-screening before I think I'm going to see about making up some decals. I'll have to explore my options at the local Kinkos, if I can get something printed that I like, I'll apply it and then maybe put some clear coat to paint over the top.
I've never done any of this of course, so if anyone has any hints, tips, or tricks to offer I'll gladly listen. Thanks to everyone so far! I just got finished watching Trekkies 2 for the first time, and I gotta say, I love all you geeky peeps out there!
Not having worked with any kind of silk-screening before I think I'm going to see about making up some decals. I'll have to explore my options at the local Kinkos, if I can get something printed that I like, I'll apply it and then maybe put some clear coat to paint over the top.
I've never done any of this of course, so if anyone has any hints, tips, or tricks to offer I'll gladly listen. Thanks to everyone so far! I just got finished watching Trekkies 2 for the first time, and I gotta say, I love all you geeky peeps out there!
Hey!!! Who you callin' "geeks?!"
Oh waitaminute. Never mind.
Oh waitaminute. Never mind.
