Free DEC MINC-11 in NW England - rescued!

From: Witchy <witchy_at_binarydinosaurs.co.uk>
Date: Fri Mar 7 16:36:12 2003

Tony:

> to a factory sale auction where there was a floppy drive MINC. I noticed
> it contained the (IMHO somewhat rare) pre-amp and thermocouple modules,
> neither of which I had. Amazingly I got it for the opening bid of \pounds
> 2.00

Hehe, just like London Buses eh? :)

> Is this connected to the top edge connector (which should have a
> connector block with screw terminals plugged onto it), or is it wired to
> component leads on the PCB or what?

It's on the top edge connector and also has some sort of resistor stuck in a
big plastic box wired to one of the lines.

> Sure, but for some odd reason MINCs seem to have them. All mine do, and
> AFAIK none were ever used with a parallel printer.

Weird, unless the aim was to use the serial lines for other connections?

The MINC Newsletters are great; full of 1970s boffinry and blokes with
beards prodding things while MINC does the data collection and plots it
nicely on the VT105 :) I just need the extra module for my VT100 and I'm
sorted!

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Received on Fri Mar 07 2003 - 16:36:12 GMT

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