I went on a shopping spree at the fleamarket today (well... =).
First I picked up a SyQuest 88, mainly for the nice PowerUser case. Then I
found an Atari mouse, and as horrible as they are (the only mice which are
worse are the old IBM models), it would be nice to have at least one
functioning original mouse. Then I went to Bruno, who had a whole lot of junk,
as always. Amongst others, he had ISA accelerators - one Microsoft Mach-20
(No, M$ are not a hardware company, of course...) 286 accelerator and another
386 one. I bought a Kingston MCA 386 memory expansion and some odd Novell
card, which leads us on to the questions:
The card I bought is made by Novell, and has got the serial number 89935 and
the application number 5657. Those numbers are noted with a marker pen. The
words "BOARD 738-61-001 REV B" are screened onto the board. The board itself
is a small eight-bit ISA card without any connectors (save for the ISA card-
edge, of course). The construction is quite simple, consisting of four 74LS
chips (one 7407N and three 74LS244N), a PAL, an AMD AM25LS2521PCB (another
74LS chip?) and a big gob of glue which conceals another chip. That's it,
apart from some discrete components. Bruno told me that it's some kind of
diagnostics card, but not exactly what kind of diagnostics card.
Then he had a KA410-A board, which my research tells me is either a ?VAX 2000
or a VAXstation 2000. It's just a card and nothing else, though. I don't
suppose it's really feasible to construct a working system out of it? My
friend bought it for the SCSI chip, which he intends to use in order to repair
a Supra Amiga SCSI controller.
He also had a lot of Ungermann-Bass boards. They had some kind of VME-look-a-
like DIN connector in the middle of one edge as well as some resembling D-sub
connectors, all intended to plug into a back plane of some kind. They used a
plethora of processors, both Motorola m68k, i80186 and i960.
I finally bought a Datapulse 106A pulse generator, mainly due to its low price
and the nice case (nineteen inch carry case with leather handles =).
BTW, what's a Xerox FLEX? It's a small box with two centronics ports, a
miniscule "parallel port" (so the label says) and a BNC connector.
I also found a Zenith Z-station 235Sn, which looked like some kind of pizza
box workstation, but I couldn't pry it open. What is it?
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Received on Thu Jun 28 2001 - 15:17:03 BST