Vol 17 No 1 Jun Jul _Ilia Engineer 1971 16th Anniversary Issue www.americanradiohistory.com RCA Engineer Staff W. O. Hadlock Editor J. C. Phillips Associate Editor Relax, John Q. Let's talk this over Miss Diane Juchno Editorial Secretary Joan P. Dunn Design and Layout rsary issu priate to Mrs. Julianne Clifton pay tribute to you, the reader -contributor. Supported by your Editorial Representative Subscriptions and the Technical Publications editorial staff, you have made this publication uniq Consulting Editors in its class. Outstanding both in the variety and the quality of its content, the RC Engineer is a major forum for communication among members of the RCA profes- C. A. Meyer Technical Publications Adm., sional community. Electronic Components C. W. Sall Technical Publications Adm., It is appropriate too, in these perplexing times, to give thought to another area of Laboratories communication; one which the RCA Engineer as an internal publication does not ,Strobl Technical Publications Adm. address directly. I refer to the need for each of us in the technical community to Corporate Engineering Services help put the layman at ease with technology so he can make informed decisions about its use. Editorial Advisory Board In recent months this need has been starkly and, in a way, brutally highlighted. The P. A. Beeby VP, Technical Operations. spectacular successes of the space program, which displayed unprecedented tech Systems Development Division, Computer Systems cal virtuosity, drew responses from the public ranging from disbelief to near adulation. Almost simultaneously, engineers and scientists were shocked to find themselves J. J. Brant Staff VP, Industrial Relations-International and their disciplines held responsible for the great social concerns of our time. In and New Business the mind of an alarmed lay public, technology is responsible for the threat of instant the our ecology, the loss of our personal privacy, and in R. M. Cohen Mgr., Quality and Reliability annihilation, disruption of Assurance, Solid State Div. an unreasoning way even for the planet's incipient death. One direct consequence is the serious impact on engineering jobs resulting from the translation of these fear F. L. Flemming VP, Engineering, NBC into disruption of national programs. Television Network C. C. Foster Mgr., Technical Information We in the technical community must provide the structure to bridge the commun Services, RCA Laboratories cations gap. Missing from the now is a web of common personal structure strong G. Gander Manager, Consumer Products involvement -individual engineer working with individual layman -on everyday com- Adm., RCA Service Co. munity problems. This is one of the components needed to build confidence and W. R. Isom Chief Engineer, receptivity, without which there can be neither understanding nor acceptance of the Record Division much needed plans and remedies generated by our profession. L. R. Kirkwood Chief Technical Advisor, Consumer Electronics It is not enough for us to go on as before, narrowly applying our skills in search of technical solutions for technical problems. We must, in addition, respectfully ea C. H. Lane Div. VP, Technical Planning Electronic Components the mind of the society for whom the needed solutions are designed. There is cogent example of this need. Anticipating the inevitable obsolescence of subson P. Schneider VP, Engineering and air transport, a development program was devised to protect a major sector of the Leased Systems, Global Communications, Inc. U.S. economy that flourishes around the commercial aircraft industry. The study was terminated without reaching answers because our worried citizens and their legis- A. R. Trudel Director, Corporate Engineering Services lators were never taught the predictability of obsolescence, the cost of being unpre- pared, and the amount of organized hard work that lies behind the apparent magi F. W. Widmann Manager, Engineering of technical achievement. Professional Development Dr. H. J. Woll Division VP, The kind of personal communication demanded of us taxes the whole intellect. It Government Engineering must become a part of our style of living. I think we owe a debt for our past neglect. We must pay the debt to earn our fellow citizens' understanding support. Our cous The TIROS M (ITOS I) spacecraft shown on our front and back covers culminates more than a dec- ade of successful meteorological satellite pro- grams at the Astro Electronics Division. A. Schnapf, winner of this year's David Sarnoff Out- standing Achievement Award in Engineering for his "outstanding leadership of the TIROS meteor- ological satellite team," describes the program in some depth in this issue (p. 32). On the front cover, engineer Frank Scearce (center) and engi- neering specialists Paul Bizzaro (left) and Frank A. o ert ru , r rector Fels are preparing the spacecraft for testing. The Corporate Engineering Services back cover shows the spacecraft and its solar cell array in the integration and test area. In the photo Research and Engineering are Frank Fels and Frank Scearce. Photo credit: Camden, N.J. Dave Dallman, Astro Electronics Division. www.americanradiohistory.com Vol. 17 No.1 June I July 1971 MCBa Engineer A technical journal published by To disseminate to RCA engineers technical ments in a manner that will promote the inter- RCA Corporate Engineering Services 2 -8, information of professional value Ta publish ests and reputation of RCA in the engineering in an technical Camden, N.J. appropriate manner important field To provide a convenient means by which developments at RCA, and the role of the engi- the RCA engineer may review his professional To a interchange neer serve as medium of of work before associates and engineering man- technical information between various groups agement To announce outstanding and un- RCA Engineer articles are indexed at RCA To create a community of engineer- ing interest within the company by stressing usual achievements of RCA engineers in a annually in the April -May Issue and the interrelated nature of all technical contribu- manner most likely to enhance their prestige in the "Index to RCA Technical Papers." tions To help publicize engineering achieve- and professional status. Contents Editorial input Protecting privacy 2 Engineer and the Corporation Address to RCA shareholders -1971 R. W. Sarnoff 3 RCA Part V -the years 1966 -1971 Dr. J. Hillier 6 The inventor and his patent attorney "Why didn't you ask me ?" J. D. Lazar 13 MIT-RCA Research Conference W. O. Hadlock 18 Cover story Design and orbital performance of ITOS -1 (TIROS -M) A. Schnapf 32 General interest New low- voltage COS /MOS IC's offer 25 -ns speed and direct interfacing with saturated logic R. E. Funk 40 The human role in command and control systems of the 70's B. Patrusky 46 Assessment of queue formation in computer systems A. S. Merriam 49 New high impedance interphone amplifier J. L. Hathaway 54 Engineer and Society Engineers: what can you do for society? Dr. G. H. Brown 56 General interest Product analysis using a time -sharing computer R. E. Kleppinger 61 Holographic information storage and retrieval Dr. R. S. Mezrich 64 Inside Romania, 1970 Dr. J. I. Pankove 68 RUDI: a computer -controlled test -data acquisition and processing system B. Mangolds 72 ALSIM -a microprogram simulator S. O. Hong I S. P. Young 74 Thick -film ceramic circuits Ceramic integrated circuit development R. D. Snyder I J. W. Stephens 78 Joining operation for ceramic circuits -state of the art E. R. Skaw 81 Capacitors for ceramic integrated circuits J. H. Shelby 84 The advances of screen printed resistors T. R. Allington 87 The use of small computers for ceramic circuit production I L. L. 90 C. A. Brombaugh M. Oakes I J. W. Stephnes Tretter Flip -chip semiconductor devices for hybrid circuits B. A. Hegarty 95 Rheological properties of printing inks Y H. Wang 98 Notes Procedure for making triboelectric measurements E. C. Giaimo 102 H. 104 Classical Unijunction oscillator with a bootstrap T2L output. R. A. Mancini I G. Fairfax Simple photo alarm does double duty J. F. Kingsbury 104 Departments Pen and Podium 105 Patents Granted i08 Dates and Deadlines 109 News and Highlights 110 Copyright 1971 RCA Corporation All Rights Reserved www.americanradiohistory.com editorial Protecting input Privacy From handling the rapid financial trans- that information taken from various References a actions of the work -a -day world to sources can be merged into rather 1. Hillier, J., "The tyranny of numbers" RCA computing the complex trajectories of complete file- constituting a serious Engineer, Vol. 14, No. 3 (Oct -Nov 1968) Inside interplanetary spacecraft, computers op- threat to privacy.' Unless legal and tech- cover message. 2. Nader, R., "The dossier invades the home," erate as passive but powerful tools in nical restraints are imposed, informa- Saturday Review (April 17, 1971). the hands of skilled programmers and tion can be accessed and used without 3. Miller, A. R. The assault on privacy: com- engineers. The versatility of modern the individual's knowledge or permis- puters, data banks, and dossiers (University of Michigan Press; 1971). computers is being demonstrated in lit- sion.' 4. Consumers now have this right in credit trans- erally thousands of applications, from actions, as a result of the Fair Credit Report- effective on April 25, matching prospective mates to diagnos- ing Act, which became How do we know that information about 1971. But they still cannot control access to ing medical problems. information or the type of information no way the us is correct? The computer has stored. of tempering facts with judgment, time, 5. Wessler, J., Meyers, E., and Gardner, W. D., or changing conditions. When data are "Physical security . fact and fancies," The tremendous power of the computer Datamation (July 1, 1971). entered incorrectly, or modified due to to store and manipulate information will 6.