anyone gotten one of these ?

**Hurrikane** · 10-01-2014, 10:30 PM

Two of these were dropped off at my door today by one of my curb shoppers. Did some searching, but as usual no real results. The forum is better than G**gle anyway.
front of case

a look inside

gold ic

labeled as "mega ram" and weighs in at 1.4 lbs

another board has a intel i960 on it

**matador** · 10-01-2014, 11:37 PM

From what I can find on Google (not much), Kavouras was a place that made weather-related devices.

The Intel i960 was used as an embedded chip, meaning that this would have been a machine to perform a simple routine. I'd assume that this machine was used for weather forecasting, but I can't say for sure.

It look like valuable E-Waste, though!

**logansryche** · 10-02-2014, 03:19 AM

Holy ICs O.O lucky find. I'm only talking a guess as Google didn't really find much in the way of the company or the model, but my guess is that port on the top went to a main unit making this either an expansion unit or the unit that handled the sensors. I'd bet this came out of a weather station that was upgraded as I've seen my share of partial and complete stations(was going to be a weather guy once and got to see the inside of a weather station). Is that blue box a power supply? Looks like a possible dual speaker box(again, another guess).

**Hurrikane** · 10-02-2014, 09:33 AM

Thanks guys. All I could find is WX related as well . Blue box is a fan housing. I'm guessing that all this stuff is proprietary to this company and their systems. Probably no crossover better than scrap resale as net searches are coming up empty.

**webuyselltradestuff** · 10-02-2014, 12:18 PM

sometimes it just ends up being really COOL scrap....once things get to be a certain age, unless someone is collecting, then yep take the scrap money and run....KUDOS you took the time to research however...many times that comes up $$$$.