1 Oct
2019
1 Oct
'19
9:15 a.m.
Much to my surprise, there are CAMAC Crates and memory cards on E-Bay. How you would use
this I don't know. When I worked at NERC we used them for many many tasks.
We had a Honeywell L66 running GCOS3. We used these to emulate Honeywell RNP707s. These
were like 3780's so remote work terminals, printers, punches, readers etc.
Some of these were just local to the Honeywell and others were remote......
.. we also build 3780 HASP type workstations, with remote screens as well for access to
IBM kit elsewhere. Then we had media conversion systems which for example we used to read
tapes from the various experiments they carried out and copy the data to normal 9-track
tape.....
Some systems had Unibus PDP/11's. Others had Q-Bus systems. The software was built on
an IBM mainframe using a PDP-11 cross assembler and we had libraries to handle the CAMAC
modules. Some systems had PROM loaded cards, others we loaded from Paper Tape. Some of the
software wasn't reliable so we had to re-boot often
Dave
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Sent: 01 October 2019 03:39
To: Adrian Stoness <tdk.knight at gmail.com>; General at ezwind.net;
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Subject: Re: Standard Engineering CAMAC crate controller with LSI-11
On 09/30/2019 09:17 PM, Adrian Stoness via cctalk wrote:
just a box of boards or a system missing a memoru
module?
OK, if you are not familiar with it, CAMAC is a standard for data acquisition and
control, that has 25-slot powered crates. At the right edge, the last 2 slots are
dedicated as controller slots.
This was a 3-slot set that could be used as a programmable controller for the
CAMAC crate.
So, it has 3 CAMAC modules, one of which has the LSI11/2 in it.
But, since the LSI11/2 doesn't have memory on board, and the other boards
don't seem to have any memory, it seems something is missing. I think there
must have been a 4th module that communicated by a ribbon cable across the
front. It may still be around here...
Jon