Ancient Uncle Al

I swear it wasn't me that came up with the subject line, honest ;-).
http://www.televue.com/engine/page.asp?ID=328

Wow, I didn't know Uncle Al used to make his own GEM! Also, this was waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay ;-) before my time but back in 1955 was the fairly fast f/6.5 8-inch mirror very common?

Thanks,
Ron B[ee]

Cool.
Interesting articles, Ron.
I don't believe I ever ran across that page on the TV site.
The Mechanix Illustrated article actually pre-dates me by a year.
I'll be reading the others later on this evening.
Thanks for posting that.
Linton