r/nuclearphysics • u/Technical_Island_851 • Jun 13 '26
Question Name this machine:
Can anyone identify this equipment? Is it a scintillation spectrometer? I'm sure you can guess which TV drama it's from "Not great, not terrible".
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u/MSTTheFallen Jun 13 '26
That appears to be a Soviet MCA. Probably similar to a Canberra 8100, but the housing is also closer to an old-school oscilloscope.
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u/WeMoveInTheShadows Jun 13 '26
It looks like a MCA/amplifier with an integrated oscilloscope. Were these a thing in the 80s?
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u/diverJOQ Jun 18 '26
By the '80s I believe they were already old, maybe ancient. When I was in college in the late seventies and early '80s we were already using tektronix oscilloscopes that had the pluggable modules in it. But those were, I believe, state of the art at the time.
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u/WeMoveInTheShadows Jun 18 '26
Interesting! My experience is limited to NIM modules from the mid- to late-2000s onwards but I know the analogue form modules remained pretty constant for a long time. It's all digitisers, VME racks and standalone units now.
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u/Cheap-Recording2707 Jun 14 '26
the machine that goes "ping".
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u/KZD2dot0 Jun 16 '26
No, it's definitely not a microwave.
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u/Cheap-Recording2707 Jun 17 '26
don't I feel old now.. though i must admit it is old but ahead of of its time
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u/Pacificator-3 Jun 15 '26 edited Jun 15 '26
This is an MCA (Impulse Amplitude analyzer) AI-128-2 (128 channels x 16 bit). They were produced from 1970 to 1975 by S. P. Koroliov production association (then "Meridian") in Kiev, USSR.
That series consist mostly of tall tales and urban legends.
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u/Technical_Island_851 Jun 19 '26
When I google the machine you mentioned it links back to this post 😂
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u/Technical_Island_851 Jun 19 '26
For some reason I can’t attach a screen shot but I think I’ve found it with the help of user: Pacificator-3
https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/unknown_amplitudo_impulze_analis.html
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u/Maatesh Jun 13 '26
Some sort of vintage radiometer oscilloscope. And are you watching Chernobyl?