2 Dec
2001
2 Dec
'01
3:26 a.m.
I was at the other yard of the scrapper yesterday. He just had in a
bunch of IBM 3174's and a few large Hitachi data storage units.
Beside this was another large unit labelled FLUKE. It's too late for
it but I did get the 8" floppy disks for it. It was raining so they
got a bit wet. They are drying now.
Does anyone know anything about FLUKE machines?
Collector of Vintage Computers (www.ncf.ca/~ba600)
2 Dec
2 Dec
4:07 a.m.
I was at the other yard of the scrapper yesterday. He
just had in a
bunch of IBM 3174's and a few large Hitachi data storage units.
Beside this was another large unit labelled FLUKE. It's too late for
it but I did get the 8" floppy disks for it. It was raining so they
got a bit wet. They are drying now.
Does anyone know anything about FLUKE machines?
Could it have been a piece of Test equipment? Fluke is my favorite DVM
manufacturer, and they make a *lot* of test equipement. I've no idea if
what you saw was made by the same company, or if they made computer
hardware at one time (they do make some pretty cool network testing
hardware).
Zane
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11:17 a.m.
Fluke actually did make a line of computers that were used as instrument
controllers in the late 70's and early 80's. These controllers had support
for serial port control and IEEE488, as well as touch screens (some models).
From what I understand of these machines, they actually could run a couple
of different operating systems (types unknown), as well as several
different programming languages.
The first offerings from Fluke for automated instrument calibration and
control ran on these. I believe one of the model numbers was "1711".
Sorry for the vagueness, I've had brief contact with them only. You may
have found a disk for one of these controllers.
- Matt
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Does anyone
know anything about FLUKE machines?
Fluke are a well-known (and good) manufacturer of test equipment, etc.
They certainly made microprocessor development systems at one point, and
I guess that's what you saw.
-tony 
6:15 a.m.
I know something about the Fluke machines but I've never seen one with 8"
drives. AFIK Fluke made very few large machines.
Joe
At 12:26 PM 12/2/01 -0500, you wrote:
I was at the other yard of the scrapper yesterday. He
just had in a
bunch of IBM 3174's and a few large Hitachi data storage units.
Beside this was another large unit labelled FLUKE. It's too late for
it but I did get the 8" floppy disks for it. It was raining so they
got a bit wet. They are drying now.
Does anyone know anything about FLUKE machines?
Collector of Vintage Computers (www.ncf.ca/~ba600)
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