25 Jul
2005
25 Jul
'05
1:48 p.m.
At 10:09 AM 7/25/05 +0000, Jules wrote:
I was once told that the blue machines went into medical environments
whilst the usual red/purple were for other commercial sites. Is that
actually the case?
Personally I much prefer the look of the blue machines!
I have a blue machine exactly like the one shown except that it also says
Tektronix on it. I don't know much about it except that it came out of some
kind of test system that had four huge racks bolted together. It had PT
reader and punch and some nice disk drives on it originally but they dumped
the entire thing off of a truck and smashed the PT stuff and probably
didn't help the disk drives. I got out as much of the undamaged stuff as I
could along with some of the cabling but it was laying on it's back so the
only access was through the front and I had to lift everything straight up
and hold it there while I unbolted it. It was struggle to get the CPU out
and I didn't even try ot get the disk drives. It had LOT of Tektronix made
IO interfaces in it. I later found a second machine with the same blue
panel but it was really beat up and the entire chassis was badly twisted. I
pulled the cards and panel out of it for spares for the first machine but
I've never done anything with any of it.
PS the first machine had processor cards made by QED in it. Does anyone
know anything about them or have any docs for them?
Joe