On Tue, 31 Oct 2000 11:53:32 EST Mzthompson(a)aol.com writes: This is probably a serial I/O card; the TR1865's are UARTS . . . .

A couple of weeks ago I found a box in a scrap yard with a half height 8" floppy drive it in. The box was marked "Gen-Rad" and looked like part of a old piece of test equipment. I picked up the box just for the floppy drive and brought it home. Today I started to take it apart and found that it was made by Scientific Micro Systems and has a number of DEC cards in it as well as a Maxtor XT-1085 hard drive. My question is what is it and weather it's worth keeping or is it just good for parts? Here's the details; It's marked "Gen Rad 2295 Central Station" on the front. The back is marked "Scientific Micro Systems" "model MDX01170". It's about 9" w x 11" h x 17" deep. On the back it has eight DB-25m ports on the back. They're marked "TZ0" through "TZ3", "LP0" and "TT0" through "TT2". Inside it has a DEC M7957 quad board, a half size board made by Sigma Information Systems Inc (connected to the TT* and LP0 ports), a half size "Q RAM 11" board made by Clear Point (memory?), a DEC M 8186 half size card, and a half size SMS card (1002001-0001/0004220-0001) that is also connected via a jumper to the last card, a full quad size SMS card (1001939-0001/0003770-0001). The last card has ribbon cables that connect to the floppy and hard drive.