LIGHTWAVE COMMUNICATIONS SCS 1620 SECURE CONSOLE SERVER

This seems to be a device implemented with a 486 integrated part, and intel architecture.  It has 16 uarts + networking to make a term server.

The system boots off of a 128mb CF part.  Possibly embedded linux.  Will have to dig out a CF dongle and image the part.

Looks like after some searching that the chip might be similar to this
http://www.zfmicro.com/zfx86.html
The zfmicro people seem to be the ones who had the machZ chip used in this sytem.  The part dates to around 2000 when linux was just starting to climb into legitimacy.

Look like the documentation for the SCS 1620 is here for now.  Will have to archive it for future use.

http://www.lantronix.com/support/discontinued.html

It appears that Lantronix had a line of bridging gizmos around the time of the MachZ part's intro, which did things like ethernet to serial, and the like.  This is such a product with a specific use.

Compact Flash and network chip

Processor

System Ram

Some sort of flash (bios?)

16 ports worth of serial I/O shifters

near the modem slot, maybe an ISA I/O chip?

Power on board

Overall.  Dual P/S are nice

rear edge view.

idiot blacked out info.  16 ports, net, serial common port

Power supplies

Flash chip for the system Version 03.12

Legend next to some jumpers and ports

More options

and more options plus crystals

Front panel board

Main processor MachZ X86 PC

THE Power Solutions

AJ-040U-D10-010

Bus and Tag cable Termination modules

These are 370 bus and tag channel cable terminator modules. One of the bus connectors having a number of 5440649 has termination on two extre r-packs.

 

Tripod holder for camera

Thir is a camera tripod converter fir the Samsun Galaxy Note 2 phone.  You can record in 1080p on a tripod with it

Photometrics Coolsnap cameras

One camera is a coolsnap K4, which is a 2048 x 2048 x 12 bit cooled camera.

Second camera is a coolsnap camera, color, 1024 x 765 x 12 bit color.

the color camera can be read out with raw bayer array, or read out by a program that combines the array into a color snap.

Many thanks to my friend Dan Goldstein for the K4 camera.

test images will be found here.

Two test lenses were used with the photos.  The wide field one is shot with a Bell & Howell / Angineaux 10mm flat field short focus 16mm camera lens.  The full field lens in the images in these photos are shot with a Sony TV 25mm F1.8 lens.

If you consider the following approximation from cameras:

50mm  "normal" for 35mm format image plane
25mm  "normal for 16mm format image plane  (11m x 6mm)

Coolsnap K4 is 15mm square or a 21mm diagonal format.  However the format of a camera frame is 3 x 4 5 diagonal.  taking the 21mm dimension as the 3 dimension this format is akin to a 25mm diagonal format camera frame.  The normal lens for that would be 17mm.

http://photobucket.com/coolsnap

Apollo 11 console alarms

Console Alarms:

http://klabs.org/history/apollo_11_alarms/console/index.htm

Curating Lunar samples:

http://curator.jsc.nasa.gov/lunar/lnews/lnjul94/hist25.htm

Spacecraft Boilerplate:

http://www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum14/HTML/000089.html

Project Gemini Wikipedia, including boilerplate uses:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Gemini

Formula for port 80 ssh tunnel

never-again-be-thwarted-by-restrictive-guest-wifi

ADTX IDE--SCSI adapter

http://mickey.lucifier.net/adtx/

General info

There are two known versions for the board (chips listed left to right topdown):

	symbios logic 53CF96-2 (narrow SCSI HBA); a pair of Toshiba TC558128AJ-15 (15ns 128Kx8 CMOS static RAM); a pair of ALS245A (buffers); Lattice pLSI1016 (PLCC); LSI KL5C80A16CF (Z80 instruction compatible microcontroller); Atmel AT27C256R-70RC (70ns 32Kx8 CMOS EPROM).
	symbios logic 53CF96-2 (narrow SCSI HBA); a pair of SEC KM681001BJ-15 (15ns 128Kx8 CMOS static RAM); a pair of ALS245A (buffers); LSI KL5C80A16CF (Z80 instruction compatible microcontroller); Atmel AT27C256R-70RC (70ns 32Kx8 CMOS EPROM); Lattice pLSI1016 (PLCC).

The DIP switches

Left to right:

0	dunno
1	dunno
2	dunno
3	SCSI bus termination
4	SCSI bus termination
5	SCSI target bit 2
6	SCSI target bit 1
7	SCSI target bit 0

IDE drive geometry

as far as i can tell the board only understands drives with maximum of 15 heads and 63 sectors per track. the cylinder number is limited to 16384. the controller does not honour the total number of sectors on the drive that limits the total capacity to a little bit less than 8G.
drives with more than 15 heads seem to allow the device to probe but fail to accomplish any actual data transfers resulting in controller timeouts. that sounds like an overflow and thus division by zero on the board's controller (;

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