I went scrounging to day and found something that I don't recognize. It
looks like it might be an EPROM programmer. Can anyone id this device? It's
in a grey plastic box that looks like a tool box. The box measures about
11" x 6" x 5". Inside is a panel with elastimeric keys arranged in a 12 x 4
matrix. Above it is a ZIF socket with a MC 68766 installed. The 68766 is a
8 x 8k EPROM and is supposed to be Motorola's equivelent of the 2364. There
is a built in power cord with a UK style power plug on it and a second
cable that has a DB-25F connector on it. Inside the lid is a label that
says "Refer to 3M EMY 9140 Field Service Handbook, Section 3, Subsection D,
paragraph 1.0, for operating instructions. I searched the net for 3M EMT
9140 and similar strings but didn't find anything.
Anyone know what this might be for?
Joe
1) ICL Perq T2 with A3 Landscape monitor and running FLEX
2) Rack mount (bare) DECServer 550 (PDP11 inside (if you didn't know))
3) A PDP11/04 (March 1976) with 128Kb, 2 x RK05, 2 x RX02
1) and 2) were last used in 2002 and were then in working order
3) was last used in 2000. Then it had (and still has) a broken RK11D.
I have an untested replacement RK11C. Weighs about 0.25 tonne and
resides in a standard DEC 6' cabinet. Also a current loop LA36 console
I am based in the Cardiff area, but 3) will have to be collected from
about 20 miles north of Cardiff.
Deadline - end February. Anyone interested? Note that I read
cctalk in digest mode and can get a few days behind.
Doug
Zane H. Healy <healyzh(a)aracnet.com> wrote:
> It's in our dining room, sitting about 3-4 feet from me, and unfortunately
> I'm not to fond of noise.
Dining room? Well, I ain't got no dining room. Instead I have a machine room,
a command room, a small kitchen and bedroom, and of course a data centre room
(closet with tapes and spare parts).
MS
>It seems people who collect old computers also tend to collect
>fire-arms. Old cars also seem to be popular among the classic computer set.
Weird. Although I wasn't specifically a gun collector (they are a little
harder to get in NJ, but not impossible), I did collect weapons in
general.
Oddly, I have recently given up that hobby, right about the same time
that I started getting out of computer collecting as well. They must both
operate from the same chunk of brain :-)
And as for the old cars... ever since my 1965 T-Bird disaster, I have
prefered to view them from a far and simply drool and wish I could have
them. Although now that I have a house, garage, and driveway, I might
take a serious look at getting something to restore (and finally have a
hobby my wife will want to join me in!)
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
50 minutes late 'cuz I was responsible for the pyro *and* the
champagne (the bad weather may have cancelled the party in my home town
of Edinburgh, but we don't give up in York)...
Happy New Year to everyone on ClassicCmp, and very best wishes for
2004!
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
or, "Dont' crush that capacitor, hand me the pliers!"
WREC Reforms Electrolytic Capacitors automatically using an SCPI-programmable
power supply (e.g., Agilent E3631A).
http://www.brouhaha.com/~eric/software/wrec/
It was written specificcally for the Computer History Museum PDP-1
Restoration Project:
http://wiki.pdp-1.org/
It should, however, be useful for reforming large aluminum electrolytic
capacitors for most any kind of electronic equipment.
Eric
"Hello,
If you are still interested, I have a total of 11 compatible tapes (8
Teac CT-600N and 3 Maxell CS-600XD). All are used and have used labels.
As far as I know, they all still work. (I still have the tape drive as
well, but have no longer an operating Apple system, so I cannot check
these).
If you are interested, please let me know.
romboc"
i've read your message about the tapes(CT-600N).
Do you still have that tapes?
Can i get that tepes in stores?
i need this tape for an old pc!
thx for your help
matthias
Giveth:
An old LA36 I got about 5 years ago, never even touched it, just pushed it
into a corner. Tonight I was cleaning out the room where I house "finished
systems", so sitting down for a rest I noticed the easy access door on the
back. Opened it to see what the inside of an LA36 looked like. Neatly
bundled up inside was an 8E async line interface card, complete with cable.
Yay!
Taketh Away:
After working years on my HP2000 restoration, it's finally done, except for
modifying the rails for the punch - but even with the wrong rails the punch
sits in the rack nicely. So, you're never "done" with a system restoration,
but I'm pretty much "done" with it. So, after cleaning out the room (aka
shrine) it has been destined for all these years, I roll the nice double bay
rack through the basement towards it's hallowed resting place... and stop
cold at the doorway. The rack is too big to fit through the door and into
the room. Not to be easily deterred, I looked around the door jam to see if
I could take the door frame out and make it through. No dice, even if I took
out the door frame. It's right on two studs, and the distance between studs
is about 2 inches short. Tomorrow night I may well contemplate cutting the
bottom of one of the studs off so the anti-tip ledge in front of the rack (a
whole ledge, not a leg - and it's not removeable) can fit through. Hope that
isn't a load bearing stud or whatever.
*sigh*
Jay West
personally, I like the sound of a bank of reel-to-reel tape drives with
the vacuum columns sucking air and the pumps running noisily, especially
the auto load ones that try to suck extra air to get the leader into
the load mechanism...
Joe Heck
I have 2 each rack-mounted Motorola Series 900 computers. I haven't
looked in some time but as memory serves, are MVME187, 2 each ~525MB
drives, Univoice T1 voice boards, tape drive, etc. Still have SVR4
installed. I'd have to strip software. Don't have any tapes or docs.
I'm located near Phoenix, AZ. If interested, give me a holler.
--
Regards,
Scott Dudley
