Salvaging hardware from industrial peecee

[Konstantin]

Hi all.
I just got a hold on a industrial PC, old Tyan Titan1 motherboard with a K5 -133MHz processor, so far nothing outstanding but it has 4 cards appears to me data aCquisition cards, well at least one of them actualy has "DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEM" labeled processor some "BB" and "SDM854AG" writings but it is busted as one of the IC is blown off, other cards are ok but some labels on the PCB are scratched so I cannot identify them. Maybe one of them is a servo controller board, cant tell.

The hard drive in the pc has MSDOS6 and everything is in german so I cant understand anything.

I ll post a pic of one of the cards.

[vacpress]

neat- get dos. reinstall off boot floppy. does it have a dispaly?

[Konstantin]

Yes it has a monitor with it, I cannot find anything on those cards because labels are scratched, I have not booted the computer yet because the whole thing was on open air and with rain it got huimidity in it, the monitor began to make weird noises so I turned it down and will try to use it after it dries up, it did gave video though.
The equipment was from a Chrysler manufacturig process , dont know any more details. This PC is way old and the DAQs cards it has are ISA and one PCI.

See in upper left corner of the photo the "A" like sign. Does it tell anything to you?

[Chagrin]

Look for an FCC ID. You can then use that to dig up info on the object with the FCC database.

http://www.fcc.gov/oet/fccid/help.html#examples

[ESjaavik]

Hi,

It's an industrial IO card from Addi-Data. http://www.addi-data.com/wEnglisch/index.shtml
Or, give me the number(s) and I'll look it up in my catalogue. I sell and support these cards. :-)

You can get the drivers manuals and sample programs on the web site.
They do have very capable axis controller cards (APCI-800x), look for one of them in the PC. Another interesting card for CNC use is the APCI-1710 counter-timer-encoder-you-name-it board. There are also older boards not shown on the webpage. Again, give me a APCI-xxxx number and I'll check.

I believe the one in the pic is a 16bit digital IO board. The missing IC probably was never mounted, and is the difference between a 16bit board and a 32bit board. Then there should be some other parts missing too (drivers). These boards have fully protected (and protecting) IO, and a very good alternative to using the unprotected/unfiltered parport. And they are mostly industry standard 24V (options can be had, so must be checked).

[Konstantin]

Thank you very much ESjaavik.

Well as I have said the APCI numbers have been scratched throughly. I went to Addi web site and tried to find out wich boardsI have, so far I do not have any axis controllers
. Anyway here is what I have
One PA1500 DS (16 digital inputs and 16 digital outputs)
One PA732 RS323 RS422 RS485 Serial interface
One PA301 I dont know what it is because couldnt find the manual on the web but it is fried anyway and an IC was blown off the PCB.
And the PCI card (above photo) is unknow one, I searched through all available products and didnt find anything though it does looks like a Digital IO opto isolated board just as you have said ESjaavik.

So what is the retail on those boards?


Konstantin.

The fried PA301 board (too bad)

[Konstantin]

Check out this housing where the PC was. I intend to use it in my CNC project. The only issue is that its quite heavy, but dust proof.


Edit:
I havent noticed until I disassembled the old motherboard that there was a dongle hidden inside the cpu case. The dongle has a small round window inside wich one can see "Fast E-Y-E A2NHZ". ESjaavik by any chance you know what software requires that dongle?

[ESjaavik]

I can't see anything fried on the PA301 board? Is't not a current board, but as far as I can remember it's a 16bit analog input board. I have the programming examples etc. for it on CD. Mail me, and I'll reply you with those attached.
The dongle I don't know about. Not necessary to use the boards. My guess is it's for Labview. That's my guess because AddiData have supported LabView for many years.
Retail? I don't know that either. Most of your boards are outdated and today only sold as spare parts. Meaning that they are not price/performance competitive to the current range. And you're on another continent, so your local disti may have other pricing policy than us.