That is indeed interesting because the only rcvr I knew that needed a pdp 8 was the older actual station monitoring units. I would strongly believe if you know what the 5000 wants these days its very reasonable to emulate the control system. That said in the US the only GRI I could monitor was the great lakes chain 89700. It was on and off the air as you might expect for a test. Regards Paul WB8TSL
On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp <[email protected]>wrote: > In message <CAAzRQfAhDyMexYqYPQXVbvuFwZ_tow2HCp9WYeS= > [email protected]> > , Andy Lokken writes: > > >Recently, a member of this list gave me an Austron 5000 Loran C receiver. > >With the recent news about Loran C, I am interested to try to use this > >device. But I have some questions: > > > >Is it possible to use this receiver without the PDP-8 computer that it was > >generally paired with? If so, how is it done? > > Only by substituting a different computer, running a program which > controls the receiver like the PDP-8 would have done. > > This may be easier than it sounds, provided you know what the heck > the PDP/8 did. > > Otherwise: forget all about it. > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 > [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 > FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe > Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
