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Anyone know what this could be?

MaccMacc
edited March 2012 in Chit chat
http://postimage.org/image/dksfoi9oz/
http://postimage.org/image/5tbppy5jn/

Im about to acquire it in a job lot and a bit baffled as to what its use is
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  • jammajupjammajup
    edited March 2012
    Pulse Amplitude Modulation possibly,sort of anologue to digital convertor?
  • thx1138thx1138
    edited March 2012
    It's the prototype Xbox Gamer Score Generator.
  • spiderspider
    edited March 2012
    Some sort of counter, possibly use in a scientific lab ?

    Random guess. :)
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  • fogfog
    edited March 2012
    it's the controller for Dr Brown's flux capacitor

    obviously it's for a commodore, hence the "CDU" on the back (commodore disk user) ;)

    either science lab stuff or used in manufacture.

    perhaps it was even used with sensors to check if custard creams were ok... or who knows.. even chutney


    http://computer.yourdictionary.com/pam

    might be of interest

    http://www.brammer.co.uk/
    http://www.brammer.biz/


    might be related to it, coz it mentions " BRAM" elsewhere
  • SpexSpex
    edited March 2012
    Does the job lot contain any telecoms equipment?
  • alanspecalanspec
    edited March 2012
    Ah - the good old "BRAM" PAM computer :)
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  • kphairkphair
    edited March 2012
    I may be wrong on this but I believe it's an electronic counter - sort of a cut-down PLC. You can program it to count pulses or monitor voltage levels and send trigger signals when a total or timeout has been reached. The CDU port on the back is likely an RS422 interface for programming and reporting.

    It's the sort of thing you might have on an automatic packing line to divert batches of items. The only thing I could find about that particular item is on a ghost page in google
  • thx1138thx1138
    edited March 2012
    Brownian Resonance Amplification Modulator

    the guy that invented it was killed by physicists who had finally realized that the one thing they really couldn't stand was a smart ass
  • milemile
    edited March 2012
    bung it in a holdall, drop it off at your nearest train station, after a while there will be a headline in the paper that reads

    'suspect bomb turns out to be ........'

    you know what it is then.

    all you have to do is phone the local police station and ask for it back.
  • thx1138thx1138
    edited March 2012
    haha love it

    if you posted that on Twitter you'd get arrested

    #spartacus
  • MrCheeseMrCheese
    edited March 2012
    Is it a high score counter, maybe used by Walter Day?
  • fogfog
    edited March 2012
    I thought it might have mean a meter to find the "%" of market saturation on Imagine V1 games.. or perhaps to count the percentage of them that had no tape labels etc :p
  • spiderspider
    edited March 2012
    mile wrote: »
    all you have to do is phone the local police station and ask for it back.

    Well they *could* do that but the law would put 2+2 together and come up with 5 (years) :-o

    I still think its some scientific / lab counter though but *shrugs* not sure. :)
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  • MaccMacc
    edited March 2012
    Performance analyser, that sounds about right, cheers guys!
  • HerculesHercules
    edited March 2012
    It's a performance wankometer :lol:


    ...You input the anount of strokes on the achievement display, and see if you can reach the target. Oh and it's made by PAM :lol:

    PAM_computer_003.jpg


    dksfoi9oz
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