can you guess what this motherboard is from?

[Shape D.]

think if i myself were guessing i would say its a fuel injection module off a harley davidson (",)  (bones will know why i say that...)



Thats cute, Bones and Danny have something going on togeather. 

Yeah, I am doing his sister....

don't make me pull out the picture of that lady with her belly hanin' out.

[Stingray]

Judging from that last picture I'd say it was some kind of electronic cow milker.

-S

[nostrebor]

Perhaps its the real-life version of the guidance system used in that Russian satellite on the movie "space Cowboys"

Or, maybe Saint has it right.

[monkeybomb]

....losing interest.

[Stingray]

It's a "Somebody Else's Problem Field" generator.

-S

[Jabba]

*Bump*

I guess Danny forgot about the thread.....

[danny_galaga]

think if i myself were guessing i would say its a fuel injection module off a harley davidson (",)

[danny_galaga]

Judging from that last picture I'd say it was some kind of electronic cow milker.

-S

thats what came to mind when i read saints response! i was thinking 'what kind of woman is he trying to pleasure'

[danny_galaga]

my friend is in the middle. now i look at this pic i see that my friends assistant seems to be enjoying herself immensely. i cant help but wonder if saint wasn't right after all 

[danny_galaga]

here is the business end of it. my friend repairs, tunes and builds church organs, in australia that makes him genuinely about a one in a million person! this organ dates from the 1880's and these sorts of things are constantly upgraded. it originally had pneumatically operated valves but sometime in the early 20th century it received an electrical keyboard, valves operated by solenoids (except for a few really large ones which are still pneumatic).
even in the early days there was a way of 'preprogramming' the different stops on the left and right side. in 1984 it was completely restored which is what all the stuff i posted dates from. when you set a programme, all the stops move in and out to the correct position, a bit ghostly really. if it was a modern machine of course each switch would just light up rather than a solenoid move it in and out. wouldnt look as cool though (",) a lot of the electronics was about multiplexing certain pipes since this organ has approximately 2500 of them!
so my friend has almost finished replacing all the old electronics with much more modern stuff. you should see the wiring looms, some of them have nearly one hundred strands of data cable  - makes our mame wiring look like nothing.
the new motherboard has an EPROM. the production volumn is so low that each motherboard is made to spec and the manual is specific to that church.
it was really cool that he let me have a look in. i even got to climb up inside it to photograph the internals. a site most tourists dont get to see (",)

and of course, since it is a musical instrument you can play 'tic,tac,toe' on it- albiet a tune of that name rather than the game. hey, i thought it was a clever clue!

[gprime]

Wow.. I cant believe it was a pipe organ. My electronics teacher showed us pictures of these massive pipes he dedicated to his basement, and then he had the regular sized pipes upstairs. Him and his brother-in-law apparently built the thing when the first computers in canada were just being sold (he claims he bought his computer from "the first canadian computer store"), and he had to solder it together himself. He wired the whole thing together with piles and piles of circuit boards that look very similar to the ones you showed, and then from there they were interfaced with the computer. Apparently BASIC ran too slow to run his music so he was forced to use straight assembly.

That crazy old man sure loved his organ music

[Bones]

A pipe organ??

I think my pot growing comment was closer to the mark than most first realised.

[Stingray]

Danny Galaga has a HUGE organ!

-S

[danny_galaga]

Danny Galaga has a HUGE organ!

-S

i thought had all those pics removed from that site...