I was at the Uni California - Santa Barbara surplus today and saw two 5-foot
19" rack cabinets with vintage-style switches on top, so of course I went
straight to them.
Each rack was very similar, having on top the usual vintage plastic rocker
switches (some brown, some white) for memory, registers, a key for run / halt
/ etc. The color scheme was brown and white, titled "Modular Computer
Systems", with a ModComp logo.
The insides were odd - instead of the usual card cages, a lever let you pull
out a sliding tray with (very rough est.) 15 x 15 inch cards that were mounted
on an accordian style fold-out bracket, which I couldn't figure out how to
fold out. They were interconnected with various flat cables. The outside
most card was wire-wrapped, I couldn't see much of the other cards but I got
the card names and part#s of all of them:
1 of Loop Controller, 551-100169-001
1 of MC II Plane I, 551-100140-001
1 of MC II Plane I, 551-100140-001
4 of 16K memory, 551-100069-001
Each rack was configured this way. One rack had a Johnson Controls JC80 paper
tape reader sitting in the bottom of the rack. The other had a smaller card
cage underneath the card assembly listed above, with 6 or so cards made by
Inmac; I think a paper taped to the door referred to them, listing:
description model
TTY Controller 3753-2
HS Serial Line 4821-1
IO Bus Switch 5213
Anyone know what this is? If anyone wants it, it's located in Santa Barbara,
California - email me and I can give you the contact info for the surplus
department there (or google "surplus ucsb"). I'll try to get out there on
thursday and take some pictures if anyone is interested.
Jeff