I managed to finally open up and look at the Westinghouse/Unimation
roboto controller that's been sitting out at Purdue Salvage for the
last few weeks, next to a robotic arm that probably weighs >1000lbs and
has been stripped of some of its parts.
To my suprise, I saw a bunch of what looked like QBUS boards in it...
pulled one out and said 'this looks like an 11/23 CPU board. cool!'
After getting it home, and seeing exactly what board it was, I
discovered it was an M8192-YB... an LSI-11/73 CPU. Along with that was
a 64kW SRAM board, a pair of DLV11-J 'clone' boards, and some robot
controller hardware...
This is a nice topping for the past week... so far in addition to this
I've managed to get (for next to nothing):
- A pair of Texas Instruments Business-Pro machines - 286-based DOS/
XENIX machines that looked complete (minus kb, monitor, cables)
- A SPARC IPX and a few Type 4 keyboards
- (OT) A Sun SparcServer 1000 with 3 boards and 5 cpus in it.
- (OT) An HP C200 workstation with a high-end 3d accelerated video card
- (OT) An IBM C20 workstation, maxed out with RAM
Now the real question: Does anyone know anything about the TI
Business-Pro machines? Specifically, what kind of monitor and keyboard
do I need for it? The keyboard connector is an 8-pin DIN, and I don't
see anything that looks especially like a video connector on it. Or
can I use a serial terminal with it? I'm doubting it since it's a DOS
machine, but not ruled it out yet...
Pat
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Received on Fri Dec 12 2003 - 13:05:11 GMT