6 Jun
2000
6 Jun
'00
9:02 a.m.
On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Tony Duell wrote:
ACS was a company that (IIRC) used to make PDP11/03 and 11/23 based
systems for paint color matching (I think). They were based near
Princeton, NJ and their excess stuff often made it to the Trenton
computer festival.
Bill
[1] Although some PDP11/10s seem to use the older
system I'll describe below.
My PDP-11/03 systems were apparently sold as some sort of laboratory
equipment package by a company called Applied Color Systems (ACS);
they were full of some sort of metallic-looking dust (I think they
came from a cosmetics company before being donated to the the
university where I got them, which didn't want the equipment), and
came with a non-DEC power controller: an Applied Color Systems C1035
power controller which is of a rather simple design, although it
contains parts from well-known manufacturers: AMF/Potter & Brumfield
relay, Gould circuit breaker, Tignal Transformer Co. 12VAC transformer
and sockets made to federal spec. WC-596, whatever that is; heavy
solid steel case as well. I wonder if they're "badge engineered."