[SunRescue] WTF is this?

[William Janssen]

I have a monitor that was used with a 3/160 that has the tempest
shielding. They even had a fine mesh screen in front of the CRT.
I took that off but still it is too big so am taking the monitor
back to the scrap yard.

Bill K7NOM

Chris Petersen wrote:
> 
> >
> > Michael Thompson wrote:
> >
> > > I have a Tempest Sun 3/60. It is actually a 3/60 in a heavily
> > > shielded 12 slot card cage with a copper ethernet to fiber
> > > converter board in the chassis. I also have the tempest
> > > monochrome monitor that goes with it.
> >
> > Tempest is a system for shielding equipment to prevent anyone
> > eavesdropping by monitoring the EMI that it puts out. I think
> > it was some sort of military system, but there may have been
> > commercial variants.
> >
> > This would certainly be consistent with how you describe the
> > system. Fibre does not put out EMI, while copper ethernet does.
> > The monitor will be very well shielded, since CRTs put out
> > more radiation than the rest of the system together.
> >
> > --m
> >
> 
> Yep, exactly what I was talking about with the SS2's.  A buddy bought a
> beautiful Tempest 411-style cased SunCD.  Nice, machined aluminum chassis
> all riveted together, beautiful workmanship.  Kinda neat conversation
> piece...
> 
> The Tempest SS2's are very similar, the front of the box folds down to
> reveal where the secure disk carriers would have slid in.  Nice machined
> aluminum like the CD case.  The units are designated by the Sun hardware
> number (i.e. 4/75) instead of the usual Sun SPARCstation 2 designation.
> 
> I'll try and get a picture still, will post a URL if I do...
> 
> Chris
> 
> --
> Chris Petersen
> Systems Engineer
> Unigraphics Solutions Inc.              Industry Services, Mid-America Region
> Email: havoc at apk.net (Personal)       petersen at ugsolutions.com (Professional)
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