I was talking to a technician called Dan Reagan at a computer swap meet and telling him I would like to add more DG machines to my collection that currently consisted of an Eclipse S140.
He told me that he had seen a large number of machines at Broughton and Broughton auctioneers in Midland.
Rather than attempting to bid on these myself, I informed my contact at Resource Recycling who bought the lot.
I then bought a number of cabinets and machines off him.
It all turned out to be much more expensive that I had hoped and the transport also added to the bill.
One of the items was this MV 8000 processor.
It appears to be in good condition apart from some oxidation on the aluminium body of the 8 inch floppy drive.
Also, some of the door hinges are missing which is why the door panels in the photograph are propped up with packers.
These are simple mechanisms that could easily be refabricated.
There are some dents in the side panels.
All the panels could obviously do with a good clean. The brown stripes and areas are residual from using brown packing tape. This can be removed using mineral turpentine.
All panels are designed to be hinged with a door action - some of the (hidden) latches are broken.
All of the battery backup cells were removed to prevent spoilage - I may have one sample cell left.
Possibly associated with this cabinet is a small rack mounting device which I assume is a facility to power up a couple of boards outside the processor cabinet.
I am guessing that it is some kind of Mux.
Also included are two terminal I/O breakout boxes which I assume are cabled to the mux.
I am unsure if these items belong to the MV 8000 or the MV 10000 (see other description)
I cannot recall at this stage if I have any cabling.
Boards found in the main card cage:
# Card
51 005 16774
50
49
48
47
46
45 005 16079 10
44 005 11975 04
43 005 17374 02
42
41
40
39
38
37
36
35 005 8584 39
34 005 22197 05
33
32 005 5799 21
31 005 15586 03
30 005 20710 00
29 005 12834 15
28 005 17471 03
27 005 12844 15
26 005 12842 25
25 005 16601 10
24 005 15677 18
23 005 12843 12
22 005 12840 03
21 005 17667 05
20 005 17667 04
19 005 17667 04
18 005 17667 05
17 005 17667 04
16 005 17687 05
14
13
12
11 005 12818 30
07 005 12819 24
03 005 13771 15
