Marquette "MUSE"--DEC mini/file server circa 1986-88

From: Paul Thompson <thompson_at_mail.athenet.net>
Date: Mon Apr 17 08:42:31 2000

This is an old EKG storage/transmission system. The hospital I worked for
used a PDP based MUSE system for receiving EKG's from distant country
hospitals which did not have the staff for a local EKG interpeting doctor.

There was also a way to poll distant EKG machines, which is how I came to
be involved with the system at the time. I was responsible for our call
detail recording software and found that our MUSE was dialing a distant
long distance number several times a minute for days straight.

Marquette (a Milwaukee WI based company) was bought out by GE Medical
several years ago. The current generation MUSE systems are typically an
unholy alliance of OS/2 and NT servers bundled together. I was hoping to
get my hands on the PDP MUSE at our site but it disappeared too quickly.

Paul

On Sun, 16 Apr 2000, Zane H. Healy wrote:

> >Anyone know anything about the above captioned computer??? It's
> >a beast! Big HEAVY! upright tower system 27" tall X 27" deep with a HUGE
> >power transformer in the bottom of the case. Model D171.
> > Main components are DEC Backplane marked "H9275A", processor card
> >"M8192" bunch of other non-DEC cards in there as well--SIGMA, EMULEX,
> >couple of unmarked ones. Powers up, HD blinks, has a built in tape
> >drive.
> > Did a search for Marquette and they are now
> >GE/Marquette--medical/EKG,EEG monitoring stuff.
> > Is this some sort of rebadged DEC system or a totally custom
> >ie: worthless medical gadget....looks promising.
> > Thanks, Craig
>
> Interesting. The M8192 is a PDP-11/73 CPU Board. Is the M8192 dual or
> quad height? Be interesting to know what the rest of the cards are.
> Sounds like some kind of OEM setup.
>
> I can't imagine the only "MUSE" I'm aware of being related, but it's
> possible. There was a Word Processing package for Harris Mini's called
> MUSE. However, I'm sure this isn't related.
>
> Zane
Received on Mon Apr 17 2000 - 08:42:31 BST