Acquired some Nat Semi ICM-3216 systems

As mentioned, I just picked up some new machines in Canada... A gent had saved some National Semiconductor ICM-3216's from a university lab and was glad to find a new home for them. These are fairly full- featured little systems designed to showcase NS's 32000 family, with on- board serial and parallel ports, a SCSI controller with it's own Z80 to mind the bus transactions, a modest expansion bus, etc. Since these were board-level products, everything else like cases and drives had to be built or found elsewhere. Two of the hosts I received were timesharing systems and are housed in nicely designed cases custom built from sheet steel. A third timesharing host has gone elsewhere, and a fourth ICM was later built in a PC/AT clone case where students could try coding on the bare metal by booting from a SCSI floppy drive. One of the timesharing systems powered up and ran just fine before loading for the trip South. The icing on the cake was an unexpected trove of manuals that originally came with all this stuff, including full schematics for the boards, and two (binary) versions of SysV Unix on QIC tape. I'm still sorting through all this stuff, which includes a folder full of notes, letters, and some brochures for different components like disk drives and terminals, mostly Eventually I expect to get some pictures up, and depending on where VCF East is I think I'd bring one along. --Steve.