3 Nov
2016
3 Nov
'16
10:31 a.m.
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From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Jon Elson
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Subject: Re: Looking for info on a CAMAC module - Kinetic 3912 Unibus Crate
Controller
On 10/31/2016 01:04 PM, Pete Lancashire wrote:
I just wish I could remember any of this, and I have lost contact with my colleagues who
might have remembered.
When I worked at NERC they were used for most everything, generally in conjunction with a
PDP-11 or LSI-11.
We had Media Conversion Systems that took various tapes from Scientific Data Recorders and
converted them to standard paper tape or 9-track mag tape.
"HASP" work stations with Card Readers, Line Printers & Tape drives.
Terminal Concentrators with multiple HP26xx terminals that could connect to our Honeywell
or VAX systems.
Some were used as Front End Processors on the Honeywell.
By the time I started most were lsi11-03 or 23 modules that fitted into the end slot on
the CAMAC crate.
They were generally loaded from Paper Tape or sometimes PROM boards which I think emulated
Paper Tape or something stupid....
There is a manual for one of the RJE stations here:-
http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/392339/
and this paper contains info on how to convert some data using a PDP11-05 based media
conversion system
http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/392307/1/1188056-1001.pdf
I hope these are interesting
Dave Wade
Over the years I've played around with a few
old CAMAC (*) modules, by
today's standard they pretty much have zero value, anyway that's
another story. Recently I've been offered a CAMAC to Unibus board. A
Kinetic 3912 Unibus Crate Controller .
A Crate in CAMAC speak is just a chassis with a backplane.
The problem with CAMAC is there is almost no information out there,
Since I don't YET have a Unibus system, it more of a curiosity then
anything.
So .. anyone have the manual ?
(*) -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Automated_Measurement_and_C
ontr
ol
I have a 3922 crate controller and a 3953 auxiliary crate controller at work. I
also have manuals for the 3911 PDP-11 crate controller and 2912 LSI-11 bus
adapter and the 3953.
These have schematics in them.
I THINK the 3912 may be an LSI-11 (QBus) controller, not Unibus.
Jon