Rescued: Data General Nova Boards

[Jeff Davis]

All the DG Nova people (I left my list at home):

Yep, I still have them, they're in a box in the corner of my room (buried
behind other stuff), each wrapped in antistatic bags.  Work and other projects
have prevented me from getting to them, but I have a 4 day holiday weekend
that I'm spending organizing my pile of computer parts into keep, sell, and
give away piles.  With any luck, I'll get to Nova boards sometime over the
weekend.  At the very least, I need to email the lucky recipients and
reconfirm what people need.

Jeff

On Wed, November 23, 2005 8:37 am, George Wiegand wrote:
> Hi Jeff,
>     Did you ever send those DG boards to anyone?
> If you did, could you give me their email address or name so that I can add
> them to my DG reference list in case I need to contact them in the future?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff Davis" <jdaviscl2 at soupwizard.com>
> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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> Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 4:03 PM
> Subject: Re: Rescued: Data General Nova Boards
>
>
>> Ok, I received a few interested responses, so I set the boards aside
> somewhere
>> safe until I get back from my trip.  Will figure out who gets what in 3
> weeks
>> or so.
>>
>> And, to answer a common question, there were no other DG parts or chassis
>> there.  I'll have a friend who frequents the surplus store ask around and
> see
>> if he can find out if there still is a DG on campus.  I suspect these were
>> either spares or pulled from the DG when it was scrapped some time ago,
> and
>> they were found when cleaning out a storage room (based on the types of
> stuff
>> I found in the same bin the boards came from).
>>
>> If I'm wrong, maybe we'll get lucky and the chassis or drives will show up
> in
>> this week's surplus drop-off (and that my friend will spot it).
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>> > Hi, I was at my local uni surplus today (UC Santa Barbara) and found,
> buried
>> > in a bin of random industrial parts from the chem lab, some Data General
> Nova
>> > boards.  Here's what I found, if anyone would like to help me identify
> them
>> > further:
>> >
>> > These boards are 15 x 15 inches:
>> >
>> > 107-000187-12X   Disk Cartridge Controller, DGC Nova
>> > 107-000007-02    DGC Nova Extender Board (quantity 2, one with gouged
> traces)
>> > 107-000055-03    DGC D-A Converter Scope Control Card Reader
>> > 107-000054-02    DGC General Purpose Interface
>> > 107-000151-17-16 DGC Nova Cassette I/O
>> > 107-000094-00    DG Nova Compatible Wiring Board (quantity 2)
>> > D-10632-01       Data Channel Linc Tape, CO3000N Option 008
>> >
>> > The wiring boards look to be prototyping boards, they are half filled
> with
>> > soldered sockets and hand-wired components.
>> >
>> > These boards are 6.5 x 3.25 inches, and have no obvious plug connectors:
>> >
>> > 107-000008-01    DGC (no other writing, quantity 2)
>> > These look like prototyping boards also, with rows for sockets and wire
> wrap
>> > posts on either side.  Each has different components wired up.
>> >
>> > I don't have any DG stuff, and it's unlikely I'm going to acquire one in
> the
>> > near future (still working on my Sun 2/120), so eventually these will go
> to
>> > someone else.  I'll be leaving Sunday on a trip until Aug 10th, but I'll
> try
>> > to take some photos of the boards tomorrow or Saturday (if anyone is
>> > interested in them).
>> >
>> > Jeff
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>>
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