Free for cost of posting q-bus camac interface

[Rik Bos]

It was used at the Univerity of Utrecht at Astronomy department.
What it actualy did, I don't know, it ran in a cluster with several
Vaxstations and some terminals.
I know that because I got the hole lot together with a Tek 4011 terminal.

-Rik
 

> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org 
> [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] Namens Ethan Dicks
> Verzonden: maandag 9 maart 2009 15:41
> Aan: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
> Onderwerp: Re: Free for cost of posting q-bus camac interface
> 
> 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