While digging through a local estate sale yesterday, I found an unknown
(to me), unmarked system. From what I know of the late owner, the system
may be related to the aircraft industry, as many of his tools and bits and
bobs were from Boeing surplus.
As for the unit itself, it is a yellow desk, with a tinted glass
slide-down screen, a complex keyboard. It had two Canon 5.25" floppy
drives mounted behind the screen, next to a USi Pi3 amber monitor. The
bottom section of the desk had a card cage, with cards, but I was unable to
open it for inspection. The only IO I found was a 36 pin Centronics
connection on the lower back of the desk. The console itself has a red
Fault indicator, as well as 3 columns of indicator lamps, with a
corresponding button and markings 1-8. There are also light up
push-buttons for power, load, reset, and compute.
The keyboard has switches for parity select (odd/even), Logic (+/-), Caps
(vs mixed upper/lower), Aux on/off, repeat fast/slow, some sort of counter,
plus a pair of mode A/B select wheels.
Pics can be seen at
http://microfilmks.com/~tesla/Oddball/
Thanks!
--Shaun