At the chemical plant I used to work at, the Texas Instruments operators
workstations ran off of a MVME Motorola 68xxx-based VME chassis.
It ran some form of Berkeley -derived UNIX. It had SCSI hard drives, a tape
backup, serial ports, and ethernet.
- Matt
At 12:48 PM 1/14/2003 -0800, you wrote:
>Patrick:
>
>I may be interested in some of these, especially if
>there is a backplane and one of the processors has an
>Ethernet port. Some of the I/O cards may also be
>handy.
>
>A 68010 must be what, 15 years+ old? I'm not that
>familiar with the architecture; I've used 68040s and
>up on VME.
>
>What if any O/S is there? Do you know how these were
>used? I'm interested in getting some
>realtime/embedded hardware to play with.
>
>Let me know,
>
>Frank
>
>
>
>--- Patrick Finnegan <pat_at_purdueriots.com> wrote:
> > I've just run over probably 100-200lbs (45-90kg) of
> > Motorola VME cards...
> > from 68010 processor cards, to memory, and I/O
> > cards. Now, there's not
> > chance I would want to hold on to these, so I'm
> > wondering if anyone else
> > is interested in some of the cards. I can't
> > guarantee anything now, just
> > tell me if you're interested or not. I'll try to
> > get some cards to
> > whoever is interested.
> >
> > I haven't looked at the cards much yet, so I don't
> > exactly know what's
> > there for I/O and memory cards. There might also be
> > a power supply or two
> > and maybe an intact backplane bus card (the few I
> > saw were snapped in
> > half).
> >
> > Pat
> > --
> > Purdue Universtiy ITAP/RCS
> > Information Technology at Purdue
> > Research Computing and Storage
> > http://www-rcd.cc.purdue.edu
> >
>
>
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