Anyone know what a Masscomp 5400 (54S-01) is? - TUHS

21 Jan 2000

On a surplus junket, today, I ran across a 2 dollar chassis that was
listed as a Masscomp 5400 (54S-01) computer.  It looked rather like
a DECish based thing with dual height cards, like some sort of laboratory
digital aquisition machine.  On the long-shot that it is some sort of
PDP-11ish thing, anyone have any recollection or pointers to any info
on that kind of a Masscomp machine? 

Thanks

Bob

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* rdkeys  wrote:
...
  On a surplus junket, today, I ran across a 2 dollar
chassis that was
 listed as a Masscomp 5400 (54S-01) computer.  It looked rather like
 a DECish based thing with dual height cards, like some sort of laboratory
 digital aquisition machine.  On the long-shot that it is some sort of
 PDP-11ish thing, anyone have any recollection or pointers to any info
 on that kind of a Masscomp machine?  
Masscomps were 68k based machines, they had a whole bunch of stuff for
real-time and data-acquistion type stuff.  They ran something called
RTU -- real-time Unix -- which was a weirdo sysv / BSD hybrid, not fun
to use.  If the 5400 is the machine I remember it's a 68020 machine
but it may have a lot of cards for other stuff in.  If it *is* the
machine we had it was deeply unreliable.  Masscomp got bought by
someone else later on but I forget who, so they sometimes get badged
as some other make.

I would run away, fast.

--tim