Re: Calling all dweebs, nerds, and electrotrivia geeks.

[Charlie Springer <RAM@regnirps.com>]

On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 14:18:24 -0700, sfahey wrote
(in article <C4E46950.846F%a2fan@hotmail.com>):

>   To: Charlie Springer
> On 9/3/08 3:39 PM, in article
> 0001HW.C4E443FC00008995F02845B0@news.nw.centurytel.net, "Charlie Springer"
> <RAM@regnirps.com> wrote:
>  
>> Nice Job. A Challenger II with the extra huge backplane for tons of very
>> large boards plus the dual 8" floppy. I'd have to look at the docs. Is C3B a
> 
>> The Volvox has an extra box of processors under it to bring the total to,
>> gosh, I'm going to have to go count!
> 
> C3B should be the model, iirc. It's been years since I've last seen one. The
> Volvox is a little more familiar to me. We had a few of them at the last
> manufacturing outfit I worked at. They were used by the engineering team.

The Archipel has 24 Transputers for transputing per box with six more for 
communication and administrivia.

The OSI is a morphodite. It is the box and drives of the C2-S2S but I ordered 
a backplane with sixteen slots so I could double space the boards, 4K on the 
CPU (a 500), 4K on a 420C and 24K on a 527. Then several 495 Proto board with 
AMD9511 floating point, stepper motor control, fast 12 bit A/D for 
instruments, and 12 bit D/A for X and Y axes of a Tectronix storage display. 
These are all wire wrapped, thus the double spacing of the boards. I also 
have the Model 480 eight place backplane on a shelf.

-- Charlie Springer