Assorted free comms gear etc. (Milton Keynes, UK)

From: charlesb_at_otcgaming.net <(charlesb_at_otcgaming.net)>
Date: Tue Apr 13 15:54:17 2004

The rack system looks interesting, any chance u could grab a couple of digi
cam snapshots of it ? direct reply is fine, it sounds like somehting i'm
trying to replace, and in the case of these "old" computers, spares are
always useful :D

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jules Richardson" <julesrichardsonuk_at_yahoo.co.uk>
To: "On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 9:53 PM
Subject: Assorted free comms gear etc. (Milton Keynes, UK)


> Hi,
>
> Somebody dropped off the following items (operational condition unknown)
> to the Bletchley Park computer museum the other week which we can't
> really make any use of:
>
> Two Racal Milgo Omnimux 82 advanced statistical multiplexors
>
> An ACT SDM-T (seems to convert several analogue phone lines to
> digital)
>
> An X-TEC Protocol Converter
>
> A Wellfleet Access Node Communications Server
>
> Large industrial rack system with 5" VGA display, Colorado 1440 tape
> drive, 3.5" floppy, PSU, and a huge backplane containing 4 PCI slots and
> 15 ISA slots. We actually have two units, but may be keeping the screen
> from one of them as it could prove useful for something at a later date
> - maybe the backplane and chassis is still useful to someone though. I
> believe there's the PC-on-a-card board kicking around the office from
> one of the racks, the other one arrived with a bare backplane though.
>
> They're free to a good home; comms gear isn't really my thing so I just
> grabbed what was on the front labels - if any of the above sounds like
> it could be useful to anyone I can always get more details as to exact
> model numbers, what interfaces they have etc.
>
> cheers
>
> Jules
>
>
>
Received on Tue Apr 13 2004 - 15:54:17 BST