5 Jul
2009
5 Jul
'09
9:08 a.m.
At 08:17 PM 7/4/2009, you wrote:
Douglas Taylor wrote:
What creeps you out? The lie detectors? The satellite phones? I
don't know where they get their inventory, but they have some
interesting stuff. I think a lot of it comes from universities. I
also got the spectrometer head, but, alas, although the unit was
complete the KBR beamsplitter was in very bad shape.
The spectrometer has an air bearing and needs an compressed air
supply, which I don't have. I also requires 20 degrees C water.
I've only been on the system a few times, but the commands are
definitely Unix. I'm spoiled because of Linux, Idris did not have
commands like more, and df is different. The hardware is a single
board computer with a co-processor board of some sort, probably
floating point. The box looks like an ancient 1st generation IBM
PC, with a huge on/off switch on the side.
I am going to guess you bought ebay item 270418666033 since it
disappeared off my watch list right before you posted. Some good
pictures of it in the listing if so. Is that company a CIA front ?
They sell nothing but, spy gear and laboratory equipment. Some of
the stuff they sell honestly creeps me out a bit.