19 Sep
2004
19 Sep
'04
4:40 p.m.
Right. The
Maplin one (Published in the Maplin Magazine) used only the
user port IIRC.
I've got another one (decoder only) which looks very Maplin-ey. That one
just has a pair of SPDT switches on the front along with a meter marked
0-10, whilst at the back there's just power, and a pair of DIN sockets - both 5 pin, although one's arranged in a
'circular' pattern and the
other's more like an 'H'. No labels on any of that.
Maplin sold PCBs (with silk-screen overlay) and printed case panels IIRC.
This could be a homebrew copy, or it might (more likely) be another
magazine project.
> I do have a 'real' weather satellite
receiver system. It came from
> ic.ac.uk, and the bit I really wanted (and got) were the 3 I2S image
[...]
I'd forgotten you had that. Do you have sufficient
software to make it
do something as a complete system if a suitable VAX were found, or has
Alas not. I got the I2S driver tape I think, but nothing more :-(
As regards 'a suitable VAX', I have Unibus interface cards for the I2S
machines (hex-height, but with the A/B connector corner cut away so
they'll fit over an M930 terminator or M920 jumper), and some 'GPIT'
interface boxes (2U rack) that connect to DL11-W or DLV11-W cards. So
just about any Unibus or Qbus VAX could be used...
-tony