Free for cost of posting q-bus camac interface

[Ethan Dicks]

On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Rik Bos <hp-fix at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
> I have free for the cost of shipping a Kineticsystems Camac q-bus interface
> pulled from a Mirco Vax II a long time ago.
> It's including a short flatcable I'll put a picture on flickr
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/hp-fix/3341557688/

Wow... CAMAC.  I've only ever seen that in one place - AMANDA (the
precursor project to IceCube).  We had (still in place, but powered
down) 4 CAMAC crates loaded with hundreds of channels of A/D cards
that sampled the waveforms coming up out of the ice from the PMTs
(photomultiplier tubes).  All four are chained together, then to a
Wiener VME box (quite a fancy one) with a 200MHz PowerPC SBC running
LynxOS (a real-time UNIX).

I've never seen CAMAC outside of particle physics.  I'm curious where
that MicroVAX has been.

-ethan