22 Mar
2005
22 Mar
'05
5:18 a.m.
On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 07:52 -0500, Joe R. wrote:
My Tektronix magnetism is still working. Yesterday
I got a call from one
of my sources to tell me that they had a new load of stuff but they added
that they thought it was all "crap". Went out there anyway and they first
thing that I found was a Tektronix 4052 computer :-). Dug a little further
and found a Tektronix 4631 Hardcopy unit and two Tektronix 8" disk drives
:-) :-) :-)
Nice. We've got one of those 4631 hardcopy units, but nobody with any
knowledge about them (is there any particular Tek they're supposed to be
used with?)
We've got a 4052, but the faceplate's smashed. I've not investigated
whether it's just a piece of coloured glass / perspex (and so easily
replaceable) or whether it's far more serious and may write off the
whole unit :-(
AFIK this is the first set of disk drives that
anyone has ever found for
a 4052 and only the second set of disk drives for ANT 405x computer.
What model? We've got a Tek 4097 GPIB disk unit. Twin drives IIRC, but
I'm not at the museum to check and I don't think I have any photos here
on local disk.
<fx: checks>
Nope.
keyswitch was broken. I didn't find the
interconnecting cables but the 4052
uses a regular GP-IB cable to talk to the master disk drive and a straight
through cable to connect the two disk drives.
Hmm, interesting. Maybe I'm misremembering our unit having twin drives.
I haven't seen any kind of slave disk unit though, just this 4097.
cheers
Jules