21 Sep
2015
21 Sep
'15
12:35 p.m.
Hello,
you have a very nice lot of DG stuff, indeed!
I have a Nova 3 sitting on the garage, waiting for proper repair.
However it's missing all the front panel switch levers,
so I would need to rebuild them, not having had the luck of finding some at
reasonable price.
I have some picture of the original Nova 3 levers, however I didn't manged
to
have the exact size to fit an obtained plastic model very well.
Would you mind to take one cover apart, and put it on a flat-bed scanner
together with a clear ruler (in the same picture), so I can measure from
the image
the exact sizes?
The profile is not the same, but I can obtain it from the camera pictures I
already have,
using your images as size reference for rescaling.
Thanks
Andrea
21 Sep
21 Sep
1:21 p.m.
Shadoo wrote....
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However it's missing all the front panel switch levers, so I would need to rebuild
them, not having had the luck of finding some at reasonable price.
----
As a safety net, I was going to send one to another listmember that has a 3d
scanner/printer and see if they can reproduce. Won't match from a color perspective,
but maybe from a functional one.
J
1:38 p.m.
I have a Nova 3. Maybe if I can find the time, I can sit down with a caliper and a CAD
program, and create a solid model of a switch lever? Then I could put it up for sale at
ShapeWays for convenience, as well as sharing the model in a GitHub repository.
Also, that heap of DG stuff in the pictures looks really lovely!
--
Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
http://www.nf6x.net/
1:45 p.m.
Mark wrote...
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Also, that heap of DG stuff in the pictures looks really lovely!
----
Thank you... Those pictures don't even show a quarter of the DG gear
floating around here.
But honestly-unfortunately, it's simply WAY too much. Soon as I get one or
two good working Eclipses and one or two good working Nova 800/1200/2's,
each in a rack with a compliment of peripherals.... the rest is available
for trade and such. I need the space badly, and the DG gear accounts for a
very substantial amount of floorspace here.
I do know that at the top of my want-list is a couple multi-async boards ;)
And I just came across two *cases* of core boards that will likely be
available at some point...
J
2:17 p.m.
My own DG rack is taking up a lot of space in a very tiny room, but it came along with a
nice little PDP-11/03 in a short rack that I wanted. I bought them from the stepson of
their original owner (who passed away in 2008 if I recall correctly), and they came with a
cool story. So even though I don't have any prior history with DG gear, this rack won
my heart:
http://www.nf6x.net/2014/03/data-general-nova-3-and-dec-pdp-11v03-l/
--
Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
http://www.nf6x.net/
1:46 p.m.
Well, I have (what I think is) an entire Nova 3, also sitting in a
garage (mine, of course), that we could discuss. Where are you located?
(Mine is in Madison, WI USA)
JRJ
On 9/21/2015 2:35 PM, shadoooo wrote:
Hello,
you have a very nice lot of DG stuff, indeed!
I have a Nova 3 sitting on the garage, waiting for proper repair.
However it's missing all the front panel switch levers,
so I would need to rebuild them, not having had the luck of finding some at
reasonable price.
I have some picture of the original Nova 3 levers, however I didn't manged
to
have the exact size to fit an obtained plastic model very well.
Would you mind to take one cover apart, and put it on a flat-bed scanner
together with a clear ruler (in the same picture), so I can measure from
the image
the exact sizes?
The profile is not the same, but I can obtain it from the camera pictures I
already have,
using your images as size reference for rescaling.
Thanks
Andrea
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