4 Apr
2013
4 Apr
'13
1:21 a.m.
On 4/3/2013 8:51 PM, N0body H0me wrote:
If it's anything like the one I have, it's a
co-processor board
used for number-crunching. My recollections point towards imaging
applications, but I fergit where I heard that.
Those are the only boards I could find either but, Avalon came up
nothing. 4mb ram seems seems like a lot of ram for a qbus fpu board.
Image processing might make more sense. It does say CPU right on it the
label though.
The folks auctioning these off say they test them.
I'd like to
know how they do this.
I've bought stuff from the people selling this before. They are out of
Texas and seem to have everything ever for PDP-11 but, in very limited
quantities. I got the feeling they were an ancient DEC VAR. Maybe they
did test 20 years ago before it got stuck in a bag and filed away.
Seems like they may be winding down now and just trying to move stuff.
They seem to take most best offers I've thrown at them. It is fairly
random though. They turn down offers they should take and take ones they
shouldn't. I also got the feeling there may not be a lot of people
working there that actually know a lot about what they are selling
anymore. Calling them is a lot like calling an auto-parts store staffed
by florists.