A serious (FATAL) error in the FRC documentation (competition_mode)

[Joe Johnson]

Originally Posted by Matt Leese

...I don't remember ever hearing that the IFI guys were ex-military (they maybe). ...
Matt

I cannot even IMAGINE that Bob or Tony were ever in the military.

As far as I know Tony and Bob are ony ex-military in the sense that they are ex-Military-Industrial Complex guys.

They used to be with Raytheon and I think they worked on Military stuff. In fact, the "883" part of the Victor 883 name is a reference to a Mil-spec of some kind (I think it is a test proceedure).

Joe J.

[MikeDubreuil]

Originally Posted by Joe Johnson

I cannot even IMAGINE that Bob or Tony were ever in the military.

As far as I know Tony and Bob are ony ex-military in the sense that they are ex-Military-Industrial Complex guys.

They used to be with Raytheon and I think they worked on Military stuff. In fact, the "883" part of the Victor 883 name is a reference to a Mil-spec of some kind (I think it is a test proceedure).

Joe J.

Joe, that solves it. They weren't actually in the military but worked for companies who designed hardware that had to be specd for the military. I found a webpage that links to PDFs that describe the 883 specification, which are really test procedures. I've also found that it's very common for companies to incorporate 883 in some way if any of the MIL-STD-883 procedures were followed in the creation of the device.

MIL-STD-883