On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Joe R. wrote:
> I picked up a couple of rack mount computers last week. Most of them were
> made by Harris and Texas Micro and are MOL standard passive backplace type
> stuff. However one of them was made by Kontron and it has a very strange
> power connector. It's a black cylinder about 1 1/4" in diameter and about 1
> 1/2" long that sticks out of the chassis. The back half of the cylinder is
> threaded so it appears that the mating connector screws onto it. The front
> portion of the cylinder is divided lenghtwise into five segments. Four of
> the sements have holes in them with a male connector pin resessed into the
> holes. I opened the chassis and found that it was marked as being built to
> operate off of 72 VDC power and that all four connecotr pins are wired tot
> he PSU. Is anyone familar with the type of connector or why or where they
> use 72 VDC power? The computer doesn't look like anything exceptional. It
It probably ran off of batteries, possibly in a telco environment, where
that supply was readily available.
> has a 10 MHz 286 CPU and uses a 9" CRT in it for the monitor. The only
> thing of real interest in it was a GPIB card. This one was made by INES
> (IIRC) in Germany. I've never heard of this brand before. The chassis does
> have one odd feature. The motherboard sits crossways in it and there are
> cables that plug into the back panel connectors of the various cards
> (they're now on the RH side of the computer since the MB is sideways) and
> run around to the back of the computer and connect to connectors there.
Is there any shielding? I have an tempest-shielded IBM PC that's kinda
like this except the cards are in the standard orientation. Anyway, what
you describe reminds me of that system.
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