4 Mar
2004
4 Mar
'04
4:05 p.m.
At 09:06 PM 3/4/04 +0000, I wrote:
> Went scrounging today and found a BIG pile of computers. MANY Dell PCs
> and a lot of IBM Power PCs. Brought home some of the PCs to check out and
> found that they all have P-III CPUs and ranged from 500 to 866 MHz. Some
> even had CD-RW drives! More interesting finds included two HP 9836Cs (the
> color version of the 9836), a HP 9000 380 (Probably top of the line for the
> HP 9000 200/300 series), a Sun Ultra 1 Creator 3D, a >>Hyundai<< Sparc
> model HWS-S310 (I had no idea Hyundai built andything like this!), a Matrox
> Shark 10/100/FX Ethernet switch, a SUN SparcStation 20, a HP drive array
> with hotswap drives,
and one old PC with a very
strange looking card in
it.
I just checked out the weird card that was in the old PC. It's a
MIL-STD-1397C communications interface. Here's a link to a site about the
card (a Navigator II). <http://www.sabtech.com/productlist.aspx?str=27>
I've never heard of this MIL STD before is anyone familar with it?
Joe
4 Mar
4 Mar
4:12 p.m.
New subject: MIL-STD-1397C ???? was Re: New Finds Today
I just checked out the weird card that was in the
old PC. It's a
MIL-STD-1397C communications interface. Here's a link to a site about the
card (a Navigator II). <http://www.sabtech.com/productlist.aspx?str=27>
I've never heard of this MIL STD before is anyone familar with it?
NTDS, I think? Its a fairly bulletproof serial bus. Military, but you
knew that.
William Donzelli
aw288(a)osfn.org
4:20 p.m.
New subject: MIL-STD-1397C ???? was Re: New Finds Today
At 10:12 PM 3/4/04 -0500, you wrote:
Yeap, Naval Tactical Data System (I just found that on the net.)
Surprised that I've never heard of it before.
I just
checked out the weird card that was in the old PC. It's a
MIL-STD-1397C communications interface. Here's a link to a site about the
card (a Navigator II). <http://www.sabtech.com/productlist.aspx?str=27>
I've never heard of this MIL STD before is anyone familar with it?
NTDS, I think? Its a fairly bulletproof serial bus. Military, but you
knew that.
Do you know if it's still in use?
Joe
William Donzelli
aw288(a)osfn.org
4:30 p.m.
New subject: MIL-STD-1397C ???? was Re: New Finds Today
Do you know if it's still in use?
Very likely. I don't know of any specific examples, but the
infrastructure on ships basically doesn't change much during a hull's
career (typically 30 years).
William Donzelli
aw288(a)osfn.org
4:44 p.m.
New subject: MIL-STD-1397C ???? was Re: New Finds Today
A Google search for "MIL-STD-1397C" had 149 hits. From one PDF I
looked at: "The Naval Tactical Data Systems (NTDS) interface
(MIL-STD-1397C) is a point-to-point communications specification used by
nearly all of the Navy s peripheral devices such as monitors, radar
systems, printers, tape drives and encryption devices, in order to talk
to legacy host tactical computer systems."
A few names are very recurrent, such as Sabtech, Wind River, and GET
Engineering.
I've seen it referred to as obsolete by some vendors. I don't know
exactly what the context of "obsolete" is.
--jc
Joe R. wrote:
At 10:12 PM 3/4/04 -0500, you wrote:
Yeap, Naval Tactical Data System (I just found that on the net.)
Surprised that I've never heard of it before.
I just
checked out the weird card that was in the old PC. It's a
MIL-STD-1397C communications interface. Here's a link to a site about the
card (a Navigator II). <http://www.sabtech.com/productlist.aspx?str=27>
I've never heard of this MIL STD before is anyone familar with it?
NTDS, I think?
Its a fairly bulletproof serial bus. Military, but
you
knew that.
Do you know if it's still in use?
Joe
>William Donzelli
>aw288(a)osfn.org
>
>
>
4:53 p.m.
New subject: MIL-STD-1397C ???? was Re: New Finds Today
I've seen it referred to as obsolete by some
vendors. I don't know
exactly what the context of "obsolete" is.
"Obsolete" in the old (at least 1950) context means "Yes, we have them,
we don't like them, we do not design systems with them, we are trying to get
rid of them, but there still there".
William Donzelli
aw288(a)osfn.org
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