Qbus
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Mysterious additional pages, never made any sense to me.
Excellent. I've been compiling a list of programs, resources, and various links to the Nova community at large here: https://www.commodorez.com/novarsc.htmlOriginal document including instructions and source:
Thank you Qbus for discovering and publicizing this debugger in the first place.Thank you Qbus. Original document including instructions and source:
Nice collection!So by the time I found out about this, a lot of the stuff had been parted out and some of it scrapped. Apparently the original owners had been trying to work with several hobbyists and amateur radio operators for like, two years or something, and had gotten a lot of "definitely interested, will be by to pay and pick up" type of replies that resulted in no action, and had gotten tired of it.
Most of the DG and Computer Automation stuff was connected to typesetting machines, there were two Kurzweil OCR systems but they were the later integrated packages, not the big early boxes with a full-fledged Nova attached. The Kurzweil stuff may have an OEMed Nova or Nova-compatible board in it, too. I believe they'd told me the Fairchild 2300 (TRW 130, AN/UYK-1...originally a 1950s nuclear sub satellite nav computer) was also hooked up to a typesetter.
We ended up making a second trip up to pick up some other large things that weren't really shippable -- the remains of at least a dozen Kaypros, the guts out of two Linotron 202s that had gotten scrapped, misc. cables and other bits that had been found since the original pick-up, and a box of board scrap that had come from some of the equipment.
I suspect CommodoreZ's Nova 1200 was indeed connected to that Teletype at one point, though the Teletype may have shared service between several computers, such as the Fairchild 2300, which also has current loop output. Don't know what the Nova 1200 in particular was doing, though.
Here's some pictures of the stuff, unloaded in the new building (not everything is from the same lot, in the second picture):
It pretty well filled the back of the 24-foot Mack box truck:
There was a bunch of Sun stuff too, which was one of the big reasons I was interested in the stuff (still support it for my day-job). TangentDelta has been working on a lot of the Computer Automation Naked Mini stuff.