22 Feb
2004
22 Feb
'04
10:32 a.m.
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 11:04:03 +0100, Sebastian Br?ckner
<sebastian.brueckner(a)epost.de> schreibt:
A few month ago I acquired a VAXstation 3200. It runs
runs very nicely
with a Emulex UC08 SCSI-Controller off a 1GB full-height SCSI-Disk.
There is one QBUS card in the system that I can't identify.
As far as I know the VAX has been used for measurement data aquisition
in a physics laboratory.
The only connector to the outside is for a 40-pin ribbon cable. I got a
very long (10m I guess) cable with the box so I suppose it is using
some
kind of differential data transmission.
Unfortunately I don't know what was connected to the other end of the
cable. Probably the card is useless without that second part (maybe a
A/D-Converter?).
The board occupies all 4 slots and is populated mostly with small ICs
of
the 74xxx series and some PALs.
The Label says:
KINETICSYSTEMS
MODEL D1571
MODEL 2922-Z1B
I did not find any usable information on he net. Does anyone of you
know
what this board does?
Thanks in advance,
Sebastian
You have the Qbus part (KSC2922) of a KSC2922/3922, Qbus CAMAC
interface. CAMAC (Computer Automated Measurement And Control) is an
instrumentation system extensively used in the nuclear/high energy
area. The other end of the cable that you have connected to a rack in
which various and sundry instrumentation modules could be placed. IIRC
the CAMAC bus was 24 bits and the hardware that you have either packed
the data 24->32 or various other packings. The basic standard is IEEE
583. There are a number of standards covering a serial interface as
well as software APIs.
What you need now is to find a CAMAC bin and the other end of that
interface and you can become a nuclear terrorist ;))
Claude
22 Feb
22 Feb
4:06 p.m.
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 02:32:50PM -0700, CRC wrote:
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 11:04:03 +0100, Sebastian Br?ckner
<sebastian.brueckner(a)epost.de> schreibt:
Interesting (to me at least... we have numerous CAMAC crates here at Pole,
but the last MicroVAX was turned off several years ago).
A few month ago I acquired a VAXstation 3200.
There is one QBUS card in the system that I can't identify.
As far as I know the VAX has been used for measurement data aquisition
in a physics laboratory.
You have the Qbus part (KSC2922) of a KSC2922/3922, Qbus CAMAC
interface. CAMAC (Computer Automated Measurement And Control) is an
instrumentation system extensively used in the nuclear/high energy
area. What you need now is to find a CAMAC bin and the other
end of that
interface and you can become a nuclear terrorist ;))
Or a neutrino telescope operator (presuming you have several thousand cubic
meters of pure water or ice in your back yard. :-)
-ethan
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23 Feb
23 Feb
3:50 a.m.
Ethan Dicks wrote:
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 02:32:50PM -0700, CRC wrote:
AFAIK my VAX was used at a high-energy positron beam. It was last used
productively in 1997 I believe.
Sebastian
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 11:04:03 +0100, Sebastian
Br?ckner
<sebastian.brueckner(a)epost.de> schreibt:
Interesting (to me at least... we have numerous CAMAC crates here at Pole,
but the last MicroVAX was turned off several years ago). A few month ago I acquired a VAXstation 3200.
There is one QBUS card in the system that I can't identify.
As far as I know the VAX has been used for measurement data aquisition
in a physics laboratory.
You have the Qbus part (KSC2922) of a KSC2922/3922, Qbus CAMAC
interface. CAMAC (Computer Automated Measurement And Control) is an
instrumentation system extensively used in the nuclear/high energy
area. 
11:56 a.m.
On Sun, 2004-02-22 at 13:32, CRC wrote:
What you need now is to find a CAMAC bin and the other
end of that
interface and you can become a nuclear terrorist ;))
More useful for detecting unwanted beta emitters in gov't surplus
pallets (my advice: don't lick any gray metal covered in flaking oxide).
Last I knew electronics makes for poor explosive devices, except for
tantalum caps. Though, if you hit someone with an XT motherboard, it
hurts, I hear.
www.oetech.com, Donald Orie, sells CAMAC and NIM stuff used. Nice guy,
good stuff. Radiation spectroscopy is my most pointless hobby (4K
channel MCA and a big scint, etc).
24 Feb
24 Feb
6:40 a.m.
Hi!
CRC wrote:
You have the Qbus part (KSC2922) of a KSC2922/3922,
Qbus CAMAC
interface. CAMAC (Computer Automated Measurement And Control) is an
instrumentation system extensively used in the nuclear/high energy area.
If anyone has any use for this board, tell me. I guess I will never need
it :-)
Sebastian
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