Posted on 02/07/2017 4:09:10 PM PST by Morgana
Richard Hatch who was best known for playing Captain Apollo on TV series battlestar Galactica has died.
The actor was 71.
He passed away in hospice care after battling pancreatic cancer, his family told TMZ Tuesday.
Hatch started his career in the daytime soap All My Children in 1970 and in 1978 landed the role in the original Battlestar Galactica that ran for one season and earned him a Golden Globe nomination.
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When I saw Richard Hatch, I was thinking of that deviant who won the first Survivor and went to jail for tax evasion.
The colonial Viper is one of the best Sci Fi ships of any series or movie.
“Played Kharn in the ‘Prelude to Axanar’ Star Trek fan film.”
They were going to make a full length movie based on that. Then the studio heads - who had formerly given them permission to do this - filed suit against it.
Just checked online. Looks like the film makers lost to the studio heads last month: http://www.denofgeek.com/us/tv/star-trek/258864/judge-rules-in-star-trek-axanar-fan-film-lawsuit
I was a lot more fond of Dirk Benedict. He came across as very likeable and roguish . Like him in the "A-Team" also.
I believe I heard he is a conservative.
Good to hear he beat it.
It looks like there is a fair amount of vitamin b17 in that diet. Just saying...
I remember being 16 when this came out. Star Wars had just been out and this was coming to tv. those were great days.
http://sockshare.net/watch/LxROMPGO-battlestar-galactica-season-1-1978.html
Gonna hafta re cast it. Tony Todd is already playing the head of Starfleet. How about Michael Dorn? Is “Star Trek Discovery” still faltering badly? Last I heard the directors and creative team was a revolving door.
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That’s a ridiculous claim on his part. A “diet” is no cure to anything but the rationale behind macrobiotic can transform a defective lifestyle and see renewed health.
Tektronix invented "storage tube" oscilloscopes in the early 1960s, and adapted it for computer graphics use in the early '70s. It was an interesting niche market for them, and they dominated it for ten years or so, until the price of memory fell so steeply that it was cheaper to store pixels in RAM (and paint them on the display screen many times per second) than it was to store pictures in the form of patterns of charge density on the interior of a vacuum tube.
In the early '70s, the vacuum-tube approach was enormously cheaper than the RAM approach, and Tektronix had a lock on it. They were incredibly good at making beams of electrons do amazing things inside a glass envelope.
However, the relentless march of Moore's Law caused made memory cheaper by the 1980s, and Tektronix lost its edge.
Ironically, the standard of excellence for the computer-graphics terminals that were used to actually design the chips (one example of which was the once-ubiquitous "Applicon" machine) used Tektronix storage-tube technology to display the integrated-circuit wiring and diffusion patterns, enabling engineers to create the chips (including memory chips) entirely electronically, without using the cumbersome Rubylith-and-Exacto-knife technique that ruled the 1960s.
Thus, Tek storage-tube technology was used to make itself obsolete, an excellent example of "creative destruction."
Anyway, the thing about the Tektronix graphics terminals was that they looked incredibly cool in operation, far more romantic than the massively brute-force solution that we are all used to today.
Patterns, either text or graphics, popped up on the screen as a brightly glowing spot flashed and hopped about in an amazing — albeit brief — flurry of activity. When it was finished, the resulting image glowed softly on the screen, in a pretty shade of green.
The drawing action was so slow (compared to today's technology) that it seemed incredibly fast. With today's technology, this process happens essentially instantly; it doesn't seem like "work" for the computer because it happens so fast. This is the type of thing I loved about the state of computer technology during my youth. You could actually see the machines work, which I thought was very impressive. Nowadays, they just overwhelm the task at hand with so many billions of transistors that it has lost its glamour.
Battlestar Galactica used the "cool" appearance of Tek display technology on screen at least once in every episode (at least that I saw). In fact, outtakes of BG are probably the only place you can still see that technology in action.
I always liked Dirk on screen as well.
All the classic BSG crowd, I pretty much liked.
Even the one lady who apparently never moved from the position of transferring launch control.
Always loved the riveted hull of the Galactica.
71 yahren is still pretty young.
I remember him from that made-for-TV movie, “Deadman’s Curve” about Jan and Dean.
Wubba, wubba, wubba....What's up Buck...?
That was a Tektronix 4050-series graphic computer.
The vertical white line to the right of the screen was a slot for a data-grade tape cassette. Floppy disks were only good for a couple hundred thousand bytes of storage at that time.
All the classic BSG crowd, I pretty much liked.
Even the one lady who apparently never moved from the position of transferring launch control.
I have lately been lamenting the passage of a lot of actors I liked, and especially those involved in Science Fiction. I was SHOCKED at how many actors from "Babylon Five" had died. Jerry Doyle died last year.
I really liked the original Battle Star Galactica. I never saw much of the 2000 era reboot, but I heard it was good.
Yes! Deadman’s Curve, the story of Jan and Dean.
I just saw that movie on the “Decades” channel recently.
Richard Hatch was great in the roll of Jan.
Ironically, the standard of excellence for the computer-graphics terminals that were used to actually design the chips (one example of which was the once-ubiquitous “Applicon” machine) used Tektronix storage-tube technology to display the integrated-circuit wiring and diffusion patterns, enabling engineers to create the chips (including memory chips) entirely electronically, without using the cumbersome Rubylith-and-Exacto-knife technique that ruled the 1960s.
Thus, Tek storage-tube technology was used to make itself obsolete, an excellent example of “creative destruction.”
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Reminds me of employees being strong armed into training their H1B replacements.
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