There are half a dozen of these in the skip at work:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dial_box
Does anyone think they are worth rescuing?
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On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 1:15 PM, andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com wrote:
There are half a dozen of these in the skip at work:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dial_box
Does anyone think they are worth rescuing?
Might make nice jog pendants for 5 axis machine or some of the classic
computer collectors
Hello Andy,
these boxes (we called them, politicaly incorrect, The Nipples) were
sold with IBM workstations first (IBM RISC PC 6150) as standard
equipment to go with system 8500(?) graphic processors on CATIA
licenses. Nipples 1 to 3 were set up to control X-, Y- and Z position of
3D models
Sorry, correction/addition to be made:
Later panels were delivered by Spectragraphics, not SGI. They all had a
male DB9 connector on a 1 m cable. Besides, there was another important
workstation part to go with it, an active key panel with 32 back
illuminated keys (soft function keys). Look for
http://www.telusplanet.net/public/mcpheej/HP_HEDS_5000_Series/HP_HEDS_5000_5310.htm
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 8:15 AM, andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com wrote:
There are half a dozen of these in the skip at work:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dial_box
Does anyone think they are worth rescuing?
Some
There was a huge heap of wires, motors and pumps dumped on top of the
skip before I got back to it, so I only got two of them out.
I have actually decided that they might be useful at work. I think I
can write some code that will let me allocate them to engine
parameters, and I can tweak
