Bruker Aspect 3000 computer and drives available

Wow -- these are funny computers. If I'm not mistaken the Aspect 3000 is a more modern looking machine than the Bruker/Nicolet one that Sellam has pictures of. I'd love to see a picture of it if you can get one. It has semiconductor memory. It uses some bit-slice ALU or other. The disk drive that's with it, if it's a removable type, is probably RK05 compatible, although I read that later models supported SCSI disks. I used one of these in graduate school that was part of an experimental NMR imager (this was before the marketing types came up with "MRI" to get rid of the word "nuclear"). It came with an assembler and Pascal compiler. If I'm not mistaken the OS was called Adakos. It was a two-task foreground/background thing. Our application program was called Tomikon, but I think the one used for analytical work was called DISNMR. Sad to say I can't remember the history of the Bruker/Nicolet link. It may be that Bruker started out making just spectrometers and originally bought their computers from Nicolet (or vice versa). But, I believe that the Aspect 3000 was entirely Bruker's creation. Back the mid to late 80's, they were making and selling these out of Karlsruhe, Germany, and had a sales/support office in Billerica, MA. I spent a week at the Karlesuhe factory for training. These machines are probably still in use in the basements of University chemistry departments and possibly in corporate labs. If the University that has it doesn't want it, they might find a taker by posting on one of the NMR newsgroups. Or, someone with a keen interest in bizarre Pascal implementations should rescue this. Brian =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _| _| _| Brian Knittel _| _| _| Quarterbyte Systems, Inc. _| _| _| Tel: 1-510-559-7930 _| _| _| Fax: 1-510-525-6889 _| _| _| Email: brian(a)quarterbyte.com _| _| _| http://www.quarterbyte.com