31 Dec
2000
31 Dec
'00
3:30 a.m.
On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, Jay West wrote:
At another electronics surplus store in st.
louis....this appears to be a
cpu only, could be a cpu and disk drive. 19" rackmount, brushed aluminum
type front panel. The brand says "Bruker" on it. There's a row of lights
for
IRQ (6-0), a row of lights for pending IRQ (6-0), lights for diskr, diskw,
ION, RUN, POWER. There's two LED displays in the upper right corner, one for
the PC and one for the Accumulator. Bottom right is a keyswitch. In the
center are pad switches with embedded led's for things like single step,
examine, store, etc. Then above that and in the center is a set of
thumbwheels... they all were set at zeros, and I don't recall how many of
them there was, maybe 12 or so... just on appearances and a walkaround
without touching it I wouldn't be suprised if it was a core machine.
This is, as you guessed, seems to be the same thing as the Nicolet
computer you previously bought. As far as I know, Bruker was the actual
company that built the machine, and Nicolet bought them out or something.
Someone should grab this machine as it represents only the third known to
still exist besides mine and Hal's (but I'm sure there are more).
this
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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