More info...
My notes of yore indicate that Nuc Data was bought by Canberra and lo
they still live. Check out <
http://www.canberra.com/> . There is a
possibility that they will take pity on someone trying to resurrect one
of their old boxes and come up with the software.
This thread is a bit of serendipity - I'm presently trying to get my
Ortec 6220 pulse height analyzer to stop dropping the first 8 of every
32 data points. I'm not sure if it's the core memory or what. Any one
have prints??
CRC
On Sunday, February 3, 2002, at 09:12 PM, Claude Ceccon wrote:
> The ND66 box that you have is the front end of a pulse height analyzer
> used with x-ray/gamma ray/neutron etc. detectors. These beasties grab
> the pulses coming from the detectors, measure their amplitude, and
> increment a histogram thereby generating an energy spectrum.
>
> The box was often hooked to a PDP11 for additional data storage and
> massaging. If I remember correctly, it will run 4 different acquisition
> heads and talks DDCMP over the serial port.
>
> CRC
>
>
> On Sunday, February 3, 2002, at 06:00 PM, Dan Veeneman wrote:
>
>> At 02:17 PM 1/31/02 +0000, Sellam Ismail wrote:
>>> Unfortunately, I still haven't gotten anything in the way of
>>> information
>>> about this. The thread launched into a description of the VT-103
>>> which
>>> this is obviously not. SOMEBODY must have used one of these at some
>>> point
>>> and has some information on it.
>>>
>>> Did I forget to mention it has a 5.25" drive on the front near the
>>> CRT?
>>> It would be cool to get some OS software for it, but I'm thinking it
>>> might
>>> be able to boot something from the onboard firmware.
>>
>> I've got one of these things sitting in my basement. No documentation
>> or
>> software for it, but I have some pictures up at:
>>
>> http://www.decodesystems.com/help-wanted/index.html#nd66
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Dan
>>
>
Received on Sun Feb 03 2002 - 22:56:37 GMT