[QuadList] 50th Anniversary of the First Weather Satellite

[Scott Thomas]

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2010/20100401_tiros.html

>From the article: "TIROS-1, a polar-orbiting satellite, weighed 270 pounds and carried two cameras and two video recorders. Though the satellite only lasted 78 days"

So my question is; what kind of "video recorder" would you put in a satellite in 1960? I'm also interested in what kind of cameras it had.
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