30 Aug
2000
30 Aug
'00
5:34 p.m.
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 01:38:25PM +0200, Hans Franke wrote:
Well, this is a Nixdorf 886x system (maybe a 8870, but
I don't think so). More specific it seams to be an BNC4
system as used in banking environment BNC stands for
Banking Network Computer - these have been designd to
solve communication issues within the NCN Architecture
(Nixdorf Communication Network). These machines have
been build from the early 80s until two or three years
ago (development lasted until 1995).
Hmm... banking. That would mean Cobol and IBM. Juuuust great.
What kind of an OS were these running ? I did a quicky web-search and
came up with a bunch of CV's, some stuff from computerwoche (which
seemed nice, unfortunately I know only two German words and they
weren't included) and some stuff in Spanish.
Your machine shows an typical BNC structure
Upper Row:
Cassette Tape Drive
Two Disk Drives
Lower Row:
Power Supply
UPS
CPU
3 Leitungscontroller (Linecontrolers?)
Diskcontroller.
I assume the Leitungscontroller have been used for
X.25 connections (Still _way_ common in financial
instalations).
Okay, where do you attach the terminals ? I hope they're just
standard RS-232 stuff, although I might be able to fetch some
Nixdorf terminals if I have to.
More Details are only available when you look at
the various tags along the boards
I'll do that and post the information back here (though it
might take a while)
So, where do I have to pick up my papukaijammerki ?
And even more important, do I get a washing machine
for these 10 points ?
Hmm.. for the papukaijamerkki (papu=bean, Kaija=name of a woman, merkki=
sign/sticker, papukaijamerkki=parrot sticker. The joys of a synthetic
language with 15 cases) you can go here:
http://www.copacabanaclub.fi/images/papukaija.gif
(don't ask me what copacabanaclub is. I don't know)
You can pick up the washing machine from Vaasa, Finland. Unfortunately
it tends to boil over (let's see: I can fix a computer, I'm handy with
programming and digital design but a washing machine ? That's some
deep voodoo magic!)
Anyway, thanks for the info!
--
Jarkko Teppo
jate(a)uwasa.fi
