Help collecting gear from west of Chicago

Dennis Boone drb at msu.edu
Fri Jun 3 14:28:39 CDT 2005


 > Wow you got a piece of a Teradyne test system! What a haul!
 > I programmed the L210 and the L300 models. This may be an older one.
 > Seems like you got the CPU and one of the peripherial cabinets.
 > You missed out one the bed-of-nails test bed wtih all the vacum hoses
 > and press down pull up etc mechanics.

 > The Peripherial cab had voltage supplys, current supplys,
 > digital multimeters, other test instruments, sig generators, etc.
 > All were programmed and read by the CPU via the cross matrix switch.
 > That bed-of-nails cabinet is larger than the old GSA iron desks from
 > the 40's.  Probably weighed 2-3 k lbs by itself.

Rich,

Oh, nifty!  I knew if I posted this, someone would recognize the
non-PDP parts.  I've never actually seen one of these systems in
person, though I've known about them for years, and even met one or
two guys who worked on them.  I was wondering about the card in the
Teradyne cage with all the driver transistors on it.

The auction brochure
(http://www.xlineassets.com/images/Xline%20Auction5_5_05.pdf)
mentions a Teradyne Z1890VP ICT tester.  I wonder if that's the part
I didn't get?

Thanks for speaking up.

De


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