Unknown QBUS board

From: Ethan Dicks <dickset_at_amanda.spole.gov>
Date: Sun Feb 22 21:06:52 2004

On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 02:32:50PM -0700, CRC wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 11:04:03 +0100, Sebastian Br?ckner
> <sebastian.brueckner_at_epost.de> schreibt:
>
> >A few month ago I acquired a VAXstation 3200.
> >
> >There is one QBUS card in the system that I can't identify.
> >As far as I know the VAX has been used for measurement data aquisition
> >in a physics laboratory.
>
> You have the Qbus part (KSC2922) of a KSC2922/3922, Qbus CAMAC
> interface. CAMAC (Computer Automated Measurement And Control) is an
> instrumentation system extensively used in the nuclear/high energy
> area.

Interesting (to me at least... we have numerous CAMAC crates here at Pole,
but the last MicroVAX was turned off several years ago).

> What you need now is to find a CAMAC bin and the other end of that
> interface and you can become a nuclear terrorist ;))

Or a neutrino telescope operator (presuming you have several thousand cubic
meters of pure water or ice in your back yard. :-)

-ethan

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