On Nov 16, 2007, at 12:17 AM, tponsford wrote:
  A friend mentioned to me he saw what looked to be some
DEC equipment
 at a local scrap yard. Looking through the scrap I saw a really sad
 looking
 rack with some RA81 and 82's. They looked too damaged and too hard
 to dig out,
 but as I was leaving, out of the corner of my eye, I spied another
 "buried" cabinet
 with 8" floppy drives. Curiosity got the best of me and a closer
 look the cabinet
 said KEVEX 1600. The floppies looked to be in good condition so I
 removed the
 cover plate and lo and behold, a Qbus 11/03 greeted me! I yanked
 the third-party
 qbus chassis out and also the *" drive cabinet, which turned out to
 be a  DSD 210!
 The scrap yard charged me by the pound, around $20! 
   SWEET!  That was probably an EDAX system for an electron
microscope.  I have one for my SEM but it's not quite complete.  It's
built around a PDP-11/23 with a Z8000 processor to offload the
spectrum analysis.  Now that I'm making some progress getting my lab
built out, I hope to look into that stuff again soon.
              -Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
Farewell Ophelia, 9/22/1991 - 7/25/2007