9 May
2006
9 May
'06
7:02 p.m.
http://cgi.govliquidation.com/auction/view?id=863108&convertTo=USD
There are 26 pictures in this auction, but if you go through them all you're
notice a very nice DG S/130 with 6045 disk, plus in a different picture a
nice DG vertical mount tape unit. These look to be in very nice condition.
Unfortunately, there's a lot of extra 1000's of pounds of racks in the same
lot :\
Jay West
9 May
9 May
8:16 p.m.
Jay West wrote:
Jay,
this looks like it is similar to a system we scrapped at UMR that was a
ground test set for the Gemini telemetry downlink. The cabinets are full
of microwave plumbing, and there are what may be PCM decommutators
in one rack, and about a zilliion amps of DC in one.
The system we bid on and got from McD in St. Louis put out all the
decommutated data on displays that showed analog, digital, and test binary
out of every 8 bit field in a 1100 bit PCM stream.
I would imagine all that is what the DG system is doing in the middle
of the pile.
The nice thing we had though was the PCM test set to generate a
stream to run the decommutator, and make lots of lights blink.
This is 7 - 10 bays total. The one we got was about 80 or 90
6' nasa barfo light blue cabinets.
sure brings back memories.
The other place you can see the same stuff right now is in the recreated
firing room displays, and the space station displays at the KSC vistors
Saturn center.
Jim
8:39 p.m.
Jim wrote....
this looks like it is similar to a system we scrapped
at UMR that was a
ground test set for the Gemini telemetry downlink.
I remember the DG stuff at UMR well :) There was an Eclipse running AOS/VS,
there was a Nova 3 (which I obtained), and there was also a Nova 1200 (which
I also obtained). The Nova 3 had no OS, and I spent MANY hours loading a
paper tape assembler and toying with the instruction set. Of course, I got
both of them as a college student and they LONG disappeared :\ All this was
in the back row of the CompSCI building, in the same room as the 4341 and
the 4361, FPS system, Tek 4014's, etc. Oh to be young and irresponsible
again. Well, young anyways :)
Jay
9:01 p.m.
New subject: was: DG S/130 on govliq... --> "smell o' computing"
Jay West wrote:
Jim wrote....
speaking of the 4014's does anyone know what sort of liquid chemistry was
used in the printers or "hard copy" devices for those things? I think I
have one of the 1 line tubes they had for printing from a junk store in San
Diego now, but I always figured the technology would never last because
of the god aweful crap that the fixed the images on the paper with. not to
mention the paper may become unobtainium.
Also the wonderful smell of a 1403 going full tilt with the cosmoline
smell and hot ink and grease odors it oozed. what wonderful things
I think of when I get a whiff of that. probably different than some other
people get when they smell cosmoline. (1911A1's maybe?)
Jim
Tek 4014's, etc. Oh to be young and irresponsible
again. Well, young
anyways :)
Jay
6648
days inactive
6649
days old
3 comments
2 participants
participants (2)
-
jwest＠classiccmp.org -
jwstephens＠msm.umr.edu