Another unknown system available in St. Louis

From: rjzambo_at_attglobal.net <(rjzambo_at_attglobal.net)>
Date: Sun Dec 31 00:07:09 2000

Jay
  Bruker is a maker of NMR equipment used to determine the structure of
chemicals.
It is used in chemistry laboratories all over. The computer runs the NMR . It is
probably one of the original ,CPU made up of AMD I.C.s . It runs only there
own software.Pretty but quite useless for anything else.

Jay West wrote:

> I almost forgot to tell the list about this one.... if anyone wants it, it's
> theirs. I'll pick it up and facillitate shipping, or you can come to st.
> louis and go to the store and grab it yourself.
>
> At another electronics surplus store in st. louis....this appears to be a
> cpu only, could be a cpu and disk drive. 19" rackmount, brushed aluminum
> type front panel. The brand says "Bruker" on it. There's a row of lights for
> IRQ (6-0), a row of lights for pending IRQ (6-0), lights for diskr, diskw,
> ION, RUN, POWER. There's two LED displays in the upper right corner, one for
> the PC and one for the Accumulator. Bottom right is a keyswitch. In the
> center are pad switches with embedded led's for things like single step,
> examine, store, etc. Then above that and in the center is a set of
> thumbwheels... they all were set at zeros, and I don't recall how many of
> them there was, maybe 12 or so... just on appearances and a walkaround
> without touching it I wouldn't be suprised if it was a core machine.
>
> It's high on a shelf in the storage area, they won't want to get it down
> unless I'm serious about buying it - it looks heavy. There's no price on it,
> but from past experience at this place I'm figuring the owner would ask
> about $35 bucks for it. The general outward construction and appearance
> looks very similar to the nicolet model 80 that I got there a while back and
> was (ISTR) shown at the last VCF.
>
> I've never heard of a "bruker" computer... I'm not interested in this system
> for myself, but for intellectual reasons I'm a bit curious if anyone has
> heard of this system and could tell a little bit about it. If anyone wants
> it, contact me off list.
>
> Jay West
Received on Sun Dec 31 2000 - 00:07:09 GMT

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