FLUKE?

From: Mike <kenziem_at_sympatico.ca>
Date: Mon Dec 17 18:35:24 2001

On Sunday 02 December 2001 22:27, jeff.kaneko_at_juno.com wrote:
> I worked for FLUKE in the early 1980's, at their Burbank
> repair facility, in Burbank Ca (where I also lived).
>
> The FLUKE 1720 and 1722 machines did not use 8" floppy
> drives, they used 5.25" floppies, with optional bubble
> memory and Winchester (using a GPIB interface).
>
> There are only three kinds of system that FLUKE made
> that utilized (or could have utilized) 8" floppies:
>
> 1. FLUKE 3040/3050/3053 series board testers. These
> are of some interest, because it's the only application
> I ever saw that used the PACE microprocessor.
> These things are about the size and shape of an upright
> piano (and just as heavy). The 'upright' part
> covered mit swicthen und blinkenlites.

Just took a second looked and they are labeled 3050

Also in the box were a few labels from IBM and a TRS model II, but no
disks.
Received on Mon Dec 17 2001 - 18:35:24 GMT

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