18 Jul
2005
18 Jul
'05
2:03 p.m.
Ok, I received a few interested responses, so I set the boards aside somewhere
safe until I get back from my trip. Will figure out who gets what in 3 weeks
or so.
And, to answer a common question, there were no other DG parts or chassis
there. I'll have a friend who frequents the surplus store ask around and see
if he can find out if there still is a DG on campus. I suspect these were
either spares or pulled from the DG when it was scrapped some time ago, and
they were found when cleaning out a storage room (based on the types of stuff
I found in the same bin the boards came from).
If I'm wrong, maybe we'll get lucky and the chassis or drives will show up in
this week's surplus drop-off (and that my friend will spot it).
Jeff
Hi, I was at my local uni surplus today (UC Santa
Barbara) and found, buried
in a bin of random industrial parts from the chem lab, some Data General Nova
boards. Here's what I found, if anyone would like to help me identify them
further:
These boards are 15 x 15 inches:
107-000187-12X Disk Cartridge Controller, DGC Nova
107-000007-02 DGC Nova Extender Board (quantity 2, one with gouged traces)
107-000055-03 DGC D-A Converter Scope Control Card Reader
107-000054-02 DGC General Purpose Interface
107-000151-17-16 DGC Nova Cassette I/O
107-000094-00 DG Nova Compatible Wiring Board (quantity 2)
D-10632-01 Data Channel Linc Tape, CO3000N Option 008
The wiring boards look to be prototyping boards, they are half filled with
soldered sockets and hand-wired components.
These boards are 6.5 x 3.25 inches, and have no obvious plug connectors:
107-000008-01 DGC (no other writing, quantity 2)
These look like prototyping boards also, with rows for sockets and wire wrap
posts on either side. Each has different components wired up.
I don't have any DG stuff, and it's unlikely I'm going to acquire one in the
near future (still working on my Sun 2/120), so eventually these will go to
someone else. I'll be leaving Sunday on a trip until Aug 10th, but I'll try
to take some photos of the boards tomorrow or Saturday (if anyone is
interested in them).
Jeff