17 Dec
2001
17 Dec
'01
6:35 p.m.
On Sunday 02 December 2001 22:27, jeff.kaneko(a)juno.com wrote:
I worked for FLUKE in the early 1980's, at their
Burbank
repair facility, in Burbank Ca (where I also lived).
The FLUKE 1720 and 1722 machines did not use 8" floppy
drives, they used 5.25" floppies, with optional bubble
memory and Winchester (using a GPIB interface).
There are only three kinds of system that FLUKE made
that utilized (or could have utilized) 8" floppies:
1. FLUKE 3040/3050/3053 series board testers. These
are of some interest, because it's the only application
I ever saw that used the PACE microprocessor.
These things are about the size and shape of an upright
piano (and just as heavy). The 'upright' part
covered mit swicthen und blinkenlites.
Just took a second looked and they are labeled 3050
Also in the box were a few labels from IBM and a TRS model II, but no
disks.