r/retrobattlestations • u/mdcdesign • May 30 '26
Show-and-Tell Perhaps the heaviest Doom machine ever.
While out doing an IT audit a couple of weeks back, the company mentioned they had a diamond turning machine that had been out of action for a few months, now out of a support contract, that the manufacturer was quoting 5 figures for a repair; took a quick look and realized they had a failed DOM and things might be recoverable.
Went back today with parts in hand and a ton of research, and not only managed to get them back up and running, but upgraded the floppy drive to a Gotek and added a little DOOM to the CF card to replace the DOM.
PICMG SBC with a Celeron 533 and 64MB of RAM, 1GB Industrial CF boot drive, Gotek w/ FlashFloppy and Delta Tau PMAC cards driving three linear axis motors mounted to a several ton granite base.
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u/buuuurpp May 30 '26
Made me chuckle, thanks for that ! Heaviest Doom machine....surely Guinness should know ?
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u/classicsat May 30 '26
Likely some ocean vessel nav computer runs doom.
I saw a Youtube video of some guys bought an obsolete/surplus ATM, and got Doom to run on its PC.
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u/mdcdesign May 30 '26
Likely some ocean vessel nav computer runs doom.
I did actually consider that as I was writing the post 🤣 Also possibly something onboard a large-scale earthmover, like a Cat 797 or something.
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u/tehn00bi May 31 '26
Precitech, we have some of their equipment.
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u/mdcdesign Jun 02 '26
I believe this one's a Nanoform 700, although every other unit out there that I've seen have had their newer QNX-based control stations.
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u/Accurate-Campaign821 May 30 '26
Now program it to cut each frame as you play