[rescue] Anyone Familiar with VMEbus?

[Christopher Purdy]

Yep - thats it.... Puma 500 series (560 I believe).

On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 9:28 PM Patrick Giagnocavo <patrick at zill.net> wrote:

> Is it the Arm in this video?
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_LV1kK5Ix8
>
> Cordially
>
> Patrick
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Christopher Purdy" <escher.beretta.2112 at gmail.com>
> To: "The Rescue List" <rescue at sunhelp.org>
> Sent: Friday, September 17, 2021 4:58:48 PM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain
> Subject: Re: [rescue] Anyone Familiar with VMEbus?
>
> On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 6:41 PM John Hudak <jjhudak at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > now that would be retro fun...seriously.....My work projects keep me
> > seriously overloaded and spousal commitments tend to absorb what little
> > free time I have.   Retirement not too far over the horizon sooo.....hmmm
> > would be fun.
> > Would need a place to sleep if she kicks me out...lol
> > Please send me a blurb about what you got....
> >
> >
> John - Where are you located?  If you are in Michigan and somewhat local -
> I'd love to get together on this project with ya.  Dave reached out to me
> as well, but this is just too much of a drive for me at the moment, plus I
> cant store everything he has.  I have some room - but not a ton. (Two 3/4
> full storage units and a packed garage - my folks passed recently and I'm
> still sorting through their stuff).
>
> That being said - if one or two guys local are interested in these Puma
> arms - I can guarantee there is another one local (I'm working with the
> seller to go check it out in the next week or so), and with Dave's stuff,
> that would make three or more...  could make for a pretty cool group
> project to get them all working.
>
> I just don't have the electronics experience - I can do board work and
> pretty much any repairs on single layer boards - but I'm not an EE so
> outside of obvious stuff, I can't do any diagnostics.  But, I'll happily
> create Digikey parts lists and swap the required bits once the issues are
> discovered.
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