Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Adds Envoy portable Terminal

This is essentially a portable Adds 580 terminal.  It does have a builtin accoustic coupler, which probably works with 110 and 300 baud 103 dialup modem protocols.

Since this has been around the LA area for probably 40 years, it is interesting that the filter material on the back isn't powdered.  I will remove and replace it.

Photos from ebay sale ended 5/30/2016

As nice a specimen of this terminal as I've seen.









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Saturday, May 21, 2016

Dec Professional PC 380


Interesting PC that DEC made.  Of course they totally bungled the product.  This has the largest scale PDP-11 integrated processor they produced as well, KDJ11.












Sunday, May 15, 2016

Volo 2 small PC (damaged)


This is the result of a lithium battery failure in progress.  I'm afraid to open the bags, and am not sure how to dispose of the things.  I fear if they are put into the recycle trail unwatched they will just be a source of detonation.

I trimmed off the leads nearst the batteries as possible, and there is still a small sensor board soldered to the battery terminals I need to figure out how to get off.

Battery has forced the enclosure open.  top is actually thin glass

View of top showing gap and original system enclosure

Top removed showing battery

Circuit board is forced up.  System still works.

More direct view of the bow forced into the circuit

The battery is like two balloons blown up.

This is the nomenclature on the battery

lengthwise view of the bulged battery