9 Mar
2009
9 Mar
'09
7:19 a.m.
I have free for the cost of shipping a Kineticsystems Camac q-bus interface
pulled from a Mirco Vax II a long time ago.
It's including a short flatcable I'll put a picture on flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hp-fix/3341557688/
Please contact me off-list.
-Rik
9 Mar
9 Mar
7:41 a.m.
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Rik Bos <hp-fix at xs4all.nl> wrote:
I have free for the cost of shipping a Kineticsystems Camac q-bus interface
pulled from a Mirco Vax II a long time ago.
It's including a short flatcable I'll put a picture on flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hp-fix/3341557688/
Wow... CAMAC. I've only ever seen that in one place - AMANDA (the
precursor project to IceCube). We had (still in place, but powered
down) 4 CAMAC crates loaded with hundreds of channels of A/D cards
that sampled the waveforms coming up out of the ice from the PMTs
(photomultiplier tubes). All four are chained together, then to a
Wiener VME box (quite a fancy one) with a 200MHz PowerPC SBC running
LynxOS (a real-time UNIX).
I've never seen CAMAC outside of particle physics. I'm curious where
that MicroVAX has been.
-ethan
7:54 a.m.
It was used at the Univerity of Utrecht at Astronomy department.
What it actualy did, I don't know, it ran in a cluster with several
Vaxstations and some terminals.
I know that because I got the hole lot together with a Tek 4011 terminal.
-Rik
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Onderwerp: Re: Free for cost of posting q-bus camac interface
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Rik Bos <hp-fix at xs4all.nl> wrote:
I have free for the cost of shipping a Kineticsystems Camac q-bus
interface pulled from a Mirco Vax II a long time ago.
It's including a short flatcable I'll put a picture on flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hp-fix/3341557688/
Wow... CAMAC. I've only ever seen that in one place - AMANDA
(the precursor project to IceCube). We had (still in place,
but powered
down) 4 CAMAC crates loaded with hundreds of channels of A/D
cards that sampled the waveforms coming up out of the ice
from the PMTs (photomultiplier tubes). All four are chained
together, then to a Wiener VME box (quite a fancy one) with a
200MHz PowerPC SBC running LynxOS (a real-time UNIX).
I've never seen CAMAC outside of particle physics. I'm
curious where that MicroVAX has been.
-ethan 
10:34 a.m.
In article <21477E627DC54630930C49B81BE47E9A at xp1800>,
"Rik Bos" <hp-fix at xs4all.nl> writes:
I have free for the cost of shipping a Kineticsystems
Camac q-bus interface
pulled from a Mirco Vax II a long time ago.
It's including a short flatcable I'll put a picture on flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hp-fix/3341557688/
What does it interface to?
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10:42 a.m.
I wondered that, too. There's a fairly decent Wikipedia article on it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAMAC
-- Ian
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Subject: Re: Free for cost of posting q-bus camac interface
In article <21477E627DC54630930C49B81BE47E9A at xp1800>,
"Rik Bos" <hp-fix at xs4all.nl> writes:
I have free for the cost of shipping a
Kineticsystems Camac q-bus
interface
pulled from a Mirco Vax II a long time ago.
It's including a short flatcable I'll put a picture on flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hp-fix/3341557688/
What does it interface to?
--
"The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for
download
<http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html>
Legalize Adulthood! <http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/>
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