Laser Illusions Graphics Workstation Alphalite

[absolom7691]

How this for sychronicity? I did the the exact same thing, right down to the new/surplus G-124's from MWK and Graphic Workstation from Rick (GWS). Got the mirrors, mounts and accel 124 amps from Greg at LSDI... yep, sweetest deal out there at the time for a hobbiest.

Very interesting! I ran out money at that so, I was never able to get the accelerator cards. That is some cheap (at the time) 12K performance right there! I loved my PC lite and I acutally still have it! I need to dig it out and fire it up. Of course, I will need to also drag out my old Pentium 75Mhz laptop to run the thing. Do they even make PCs with parallel ports anymore? :P

[mixedgas]

I have a professional laserist friend who still uses Accel 124s and G124s. They are easy to repair, and very reliable.
If your selling the Accel cards, let me know. He might be game for a pair.

I have a pair of them myself and nine spare G124s, and two tubes of transistors and op-amps. I can keep them going for at least another 20 years.

I helped Rick with GWS, ran it for a long time. He taught me bus IO, made me build the ISA cards myself for Laser Illusions.


Steve

[Banthai]

Steve ... I still have my Laser Illusions ISA card ...
and i also bought the SVS kit ...... but then Medialas came out with the just affordable catweazle Galvos .... and it all went from there ... apart from the big ol mothers of open loop Galvos that i took from a surplus russian chart recorder ..... but they worked

Andy did have a thread running here about historical hardware ... shame its not a sticky .... would be good to see it updated on a regular basis

all the best ... Karl

[LaserCo]

Hi telmnstr!
I have missed the christmas tree with internet remote control for several years and often would check back for it.
Good to see you around

I still have the special precision motors from that galvo kit with the mirrors broken off on them, here is one of the boxes of "Panal" pots.
I seem to had followed the same path as the rest of you, going MWK!
I went the Omnichrome 532/LaserMax (card)/BeamFX(software)/G120's/Laser Artistry(galvo driver amp) route.

[flecom]

Wow...the SVS kit.

Definitely "back of the magazine" stuff. Had one, partially built, put away and went to a friend many years ago. Never saw one working.

wow memories! I also bought that SVS kit years ago, I was a little kid, maybe 12 at the time? never did get it working

[absolom7691]

Anyone remember the GAL-3 scanners that MWK sold? 2 steppers with pot shafts for the mirror mounts, with magnets glue to them.

[flecom]

Anyone remember the GAL-3 scanners that MWK sold? 2 steppers with pot shafts for the mirror mounts, with magnets glue to them.

YES! I still have it somewhere, really stupid long shafts...

I had the matching oscillator board somewhere too

[absolom7691]

YES! I still have it somewhere, really stupid long shafts...

I had the matching oscillator board somewhere too

That is awesome! Those were actually pretty good for lissajous displays. I wish I still had mine. I remember one of the magents came off my set. They actually performed better with the magnets off and adding 5vdc to the unused phase for "braking". I was able to get a nice square after that. Ahhhhh, memories!

[flecom]

That is awesome! Those were actually pretty good for lissajous displays. I wish I still had mine. I remember one of the magents came off my set. They actually performed better with the magnets off and adding 5vdc to the unused phase for "braking". I was able to get a nice square after that. Ahhhhh, memories!

yes I did the same thing, I could probably find them somewhere, I remember using it with a crystalaser 532nm 20mW module and an oscillator on my laptop running into an audio amp driving the steppers, made cool patterns with it back in the day

[absolom7691]

I need some clean open loop galvos like those for my XYP-1000. Over the past few years, moving from here to there, I lost the scan-head for my XYP. Those would substitue nicely! I need to try and build some.