6 Apr
2009
6 Apr
'09
9:02 p.m.
A few items to give away.
I came across a box of stuff as I was cleaning out the server room.
Might be of interest to someone, might not. I'd prefer local pickup
(Denver, CO area), but could be persuaded to ship if you cover S/H.
* CHIPS Enhanced Graphics Card Rev 1.0
* Headland Technology 16-bit ISA VGA video card VGA-16 650-0122 (c) 1988
* GPIB IEEE-488 board, unknown manuf. 8-bit ISA. "6323706 REV A
667523" printed on PCB, next to a logo like a palm tree with a small
"2" next to it.
* Adaptec AHA-1542B 16-bit ISA SCSI card
* Unknown board from "The Palantir Corporation" (c) 1988 - has a
Motorola 68020. 16-bit ISA. Maybe a co-processor board?
* 5 9-track tapes,3M and Memorex. One is labeled "MultiNet 3.2 Rev A",
another "MultiNet 3.2, Rev B". Others are hand-labeled. No idea
what's actually on them. They probably haven't been used since the
early 90's.
All of these items are untested and provided AS IS. Anything
unclaimed goes to the recycle bin.
I'll put some images up tonight when I get home from work, if anyone's
interested.
- Mike
6 Apr
6 Apr
10:31 p.m.
Mike Maginnis wrote:
A few items to give away.
I came across a box of stuff as I was cleaning out the server room.
Might be of interest to someone, might not. I'd prefer local pickup
(Denver, CO area), but could be persuaded to ship if you cover S/H.
...
* Unknown board from "The Palantir
Corporation" (c) 1988 - has a
Motorola 68020. 16-bit ISA. Maybe a co-processor board?
I designed that card, and one and a half of the three ASICs (at LSI
logic) that are on it. I'm surprised it says Plantir; I thought we were
called Calera Recognition Systems by then.
The card was for OCR; $2000 new. When the classiccmp archives are back
online, you can search it and there is a long message or two where I
describe how we configured these cards, even multiple cards in one
system, without having any jumpers. It is child's play on PCI, but ISA
bus had no mechanism to make it easy.
I spent a lot more time debugging flaky boards than I spent designing
it. It wasn't that the design was bad, but we made about 300
boards/month and there is always some fallout. At $2000/pop, it was
worth my time (at $35K/yr) to the company to sit and debug them.
21 Apr
21 Apr
5:09 p.m.
Hi Jim,
Wow. Thanks for all the details. I could find nothing at all about
it despite my best Googling, and very little even about Palantir.
It's always nice to learn something new about my favorite hobby.
Mike
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Jim Battle <frustum at pacbell.net> wrote:
Mike Maginnis wrote:
A few items to give away.
I came across a box of stuff as I was cleaning out the server room.
Might be of interest to someone, might not. ?I'd prefer local pickup
(Denver, CO area), but could be persuaded to ship if you cover S/H.
...
* Unknown board from "The Palantir Corporation" (c) 1988 - has a
Motorola 68020. ?16-bit ISA. ?Maybe a co-processor board?
I designed that card, and one and a half of the three ASICs (at LSI logic)
that are on it. ?I'm surprised it says Plantir; I thought we were called
Calera Recognition Systems by then.
The card was for OCR; $2000 new. ?When the classiccmp archives are back
online, you can search it and there is a long message or two where I
describe how we configured these cards, even multiple cards in one system,
without having any jumpers. ?It is child's play on PCI, but ISA bus had no
mechanism to make it easy.
I spent a lot more time debugging flaky boards than I spent designing it.
?It wasn't that the design was bad, but we made about 300 boards/month and
there is always some fallout. ?At $2000/pop, it was worth my time (at
$35K/yr) to the company to sit and debug them.
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