PDP 11/23 system

Retrieved today.

Spartan 3 million gate development board, Xilinx for 360/30 (2030) processor.

This is the development board which will run a 360.30 emulation developed by Lawrence Wilkerson.

I have been in contact with him, and needed to get one of these as they are now past EOL and no longer being made.  This one should be binary compatible with his work and get me started much higher in the food chain playing with these devices than other samples out there.

It was also necessary to purchase a Jtag device for programming the board.  Most important this board supports not only the emulation of the 360 but a VGA display device.  Also has an integrated display to help debugging, as well as switches for the console.

http://www.ljw.me.uk/ibm360/

Boresite for Fastair camera

This is a boresite for focusing fastair cameras.  It is a standin for the camera wherever the camera may be positioned and need to be focuses.

The front bit of the black optical tube has a lens with a crosshair etched in the flat surface there.  The opposite end is an eyepiece thru which you can focus and view the eyepiece.  There is a two piece draw tube focuser which is secured by the two set thumb screws on the right side.

It is all in a a nice Wollensak wood case for storage.

Scoring Camera

This is a Traid Scoring camera.  It has a 3mm fisheye lens and films to 16mm.  The main film mover is a B&H 70 core 100' movement, driven by a 28v DC motor.

The other feature is that it has a badge saying it is supplied to the USAF by Land Sea.  This company was small when this was built, and it was a contractor the the USAF and not affiliated with the Traid company.  It supplied logistics to the military of the nature of air logistics, test aircraft support, and other things that were out of band for normal channels.

I figure from what I've read they would be the ones in first to set some oddball operation up, and then the AF would come in and document it and staff it with personnel from normal billets if it had to continue operation.

Not sure about the internal ring of 10 neon lamps either.  I suspect they are to do with whatever a scoring camera is.  I didn't find anything to do something like recording timing or other information on the film as the test runs, so not sure why you'd want so much illumination internal to the lens assembly.

Also I had to know how the hell a 3mm focal length lens could be the size of a tallboy beer can.  Usually they have some sort of fisheye assembly on the front, but they tend to shrink with the focal length.  I have 5mm lenses for 16mm film format which are 4" long, but they have curved coverage of the film.

Beckman Deuterium lamp

8333 Beckman tube

Window view

Part 8333

Three leads

Sparcbook 3

This is the latest Tadpole system acquired from the fellow with some bits of this hardware.

I looked and found that there is an adapter for the Macs for the SCSI from something called HD-30 to SCSI2.  SCSI2 is what the 50 pin connector is now called.  I'm guessing it will be single ended, so should be able to use a Sparc 411 box, and a Plextor CD drive to install it.

This is equivalent to a Sparcstation 5, and is probably the fastest system likely to be had as a laptop by my collecting parameters (cheap, bargain).

Battery in nice shape

HD-30 Scsi Port can be seen at the left

Not sure if this is original to any Sparcbook.

The other sparcbooks somewhat wider and shorter supplies that are marked with a Sparcbook legend.  This appears to be the correct supply parameters, but not original to the sparcbook.  May be a sign the guy is running out of sparcbooks to sell. All of mine are coming from the same seller.