[time-nuts] Questions about Austron 5000 Loran C receiver

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Sat Mar 3 16:14:34 UTC 2012


In message <CAAzRQfAhDyMexYqYPQXVbvuFwZ_tow2HCp9WYeS=dksREnWnQw at mail.gmail.com>
, 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.

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