... and it turned out to be a Spirometer (a deal that measures how much air you breath out, or some such).
It's a Medical Graphics Microloop System 1100 and the heart of it is an Apple IIe, absolutely loaded with cards. No pics until tomorrow, I'm afraid. I foolishly left the camera at my workshop, while I am now at home getting outside of a beer, so it's too late to go back for it.
From memory, though, it has:
The 80 column / RAM expansion
An Apple CAT II modem, with the expansion card for 1200 Baud
A Microbuffer II
Disk II card
What I think is an A/D card - can't remember the make
A Titan accelerator
A Titan RAM expansion
That's 7+1, so that must be the lot.
The box holds the IIe (with no lid), a 5.25" FDD and a 9" mono monitor. It also has a bunch of proprietary electronics for handling the measurement & interfacing to the (possible) A/D card.
There was a disk labeled "Initialization" in the drive, so I fired it up and it loaded a program and asked for a patient data disk. I had some (I guess this was pre-HIPAA) so I put one in and hit Enter. Error, crash. Powered down, restarted and did the exact same things except this time I took the write protect sticker off the data disk. It chuntered along, then asked me if I wanted to make another copy. I said no, it asked for the program disk, I gave it to it and we were in a loop. Back to wanting a patient data disk again.
There are some other program disks, but I haven't played with them yet.
Some other observations:
There's a port on the back marked RS232, which is connected by two wires to the telephone line pins of the modem card.
There's also a two wire connection from the joystick port to a 3.5mm jack socket on the back panel, which is unlabelled.
While it only has one FDD, the case looks to be designed to accommodate two. Perhaps there were different versions of the system.
That's all I can remember, right now. It would be cool if I could get it to take a spirometry measurement, so let's hope the other disks are good.
It's a Medical Graphics Microloop System 1100 and the heart of it is an Apple IIe, absolutely loaded with cards. No pics until tomorrow, I'm afraid. I foolishly left the camera at my workshop, while I am now at home getting outside of a beer, so it's too late to go back for it.
From memory, though, it has:
The 80 column / RAM expansion
An Apple CAT II modem, with the expansion card for 1200 Baud
A Microbuffer II
Disk II card
What I think is an A/D card - can't remember the make
A Titan accelerator
A Titan RAM expansion
That's 7+1, so that must be the lot.
The box holds the IIe (with no lid), a 5.25" FDD and a 9" mono monitor. It also has a bunch of proprietary electronics for handling the measurement & interfacing to the (possible) A/D card.
There was a disk labeled "Initialization" in the drive, so I fired it up and it loaded a program and asked for a patient data disk. I had some (I guess this was pre-HIPAA) so I put one in and hit Enter. Error, crash. Powered down, restarted and did the exact same things except this time I took the write protect sticker off the data disk. It chuntered along, then asked me if I wanted to make another copy. I said no, it asked for the program disk, I gave it to it and we were in a loop. Back to wanting a patient data disk again.
There are some other program disks, but I haven't played with them yet.
Some other observations:
There's a port on the back marked RS232, which is connected by two wires to the telephone line pins of the modem card.
There's also a two wire connection from the joystick port to a 3.5mm jack socket on the back panel, which is unlabelled.
While it only has one FDD, the case looks to be designed to accommodate two. Perhaps there were different versions of the system.
That's all I can remember, right now. It would be cool if I could get it to take a spirometry measurement, so let's hope the other disks are good.