Great save! On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 8:27 PM, Brent Hilpert <hilp...@cs.ubc.ca> wrote:
> So Rob and I got onsite yesterday and ended up taking away a small haul of > DEC equipment. > > - Three RC-25 drives with a dozen-or-so cartridges. We know at > least one drive works. > > - We were quite excited to see two 11/83 boxes, one of which was > working with one of the RC-25s, running RT-11. > However when Rob got everything home and examined it, it turned > out it was an 11/23 CPU in the running box, > and the other was mostly empty of cards, with no CPU. > > - A VT-330 terminal (left two other 330 displays, only one > keyboard between the three of them). > > - 4-slot Q-bus backplane/rack unit, probably originally held the > 11/23 CPU. > > - Some extra/duplicate Q-bus device controller cards. > > - RT-11 install media on floppy. > > It was the data-collection end of the Becton-Dickinson FACS 440 equipment > (Flourescent Activated Cell Sorting), 1980s technology that been in use > till not too long ago. All the extra bits had been accumulated over time to > keep the system going. > > Sadly we had to leave the 440 rack which had two 5-6" X/Y CRT displays, > 3KV power supplies, the laser table with two water-cooled lasers, > photo-multiplier tubes, optics, etc. > >
