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Originally Posted by PRejto
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Don first published the design on the atm list around the year 2000 if memory serves me correctly. He quickly realised that it was commercially viable so removed the pics and engineering drawings from the public domain.
If you use 'way back then' you may be able to dig them up.
The atm community was probably at it's peak back then. There was a critical mass of very clever and knowledgeable people bouncing ideas off each other and actually building equipment. There was more than one idea lifted by commercial astronomical equipment manufacturers. I am sad to say that the collective technical curiosity and understanding apparent in forums seams to have been in ablation ever since.
The hostile treatment of one of the intellectual giants (Bratislav) by much lesser minds in the 'other' forum marked the end of an era for me. Anyway, I digress.