[cctalk] Animatics motion controllers
A bit off topic but I'm curious if anyone has any technical information on Animatics motion controllers.Animatics was based in (Santa Clara) in the 1990s. They were bought by Moog sometime around 2000 and all the old info was thrown out. A support engineer working for Moog (who had worked for Animatics before the buyout) provided a bunch of DOS utilities and info on the RS232 programming that he found on a backup, but this is all the info that exists. Schematics for the hardware (CPU is a Phillips SCC68070 with a MC68881 math coprocessor), firmware code and any other technical info would be great. Wayback machine link: http://web.archive.org/web/19990218104405/http://www.animatics.com/5000list.htm eBay link to an actual controller: https://www.ebay.com/itm/124030784795
[cctalk] Re: Philips P2000C carrying strap
> On Sep 30, 2022, at 11:19 PM, Tom Hunter wrote: > > https://www.stirlingcryogenics.eu/ > > These machines are still made and indeed are very cool. ;-) So to speak! I didn't see their liquid helium machine. I remember one installed at the TU Eindhoven physics department; it consisted of a pair of two-stage Stirling machines (which by themselves will liquify hydrogen or neon, i.e., they go down to about 20 K) plus a bunch of auxiliary equipment. The whole setup took maybe a 15 foot square room. The website doesn't show any of the compact machines I remember seeing described. A bunch of those had 400 Hz power, indicating they were meant for airborne use. One was a little lab bench machine, a box perhaps the size of an old style desktop PC, lying flat, with a "cold finger" sticking out of the box. paul
