Dewster:
I used to have the green LED, light oak framed indoor display but that was it. I never was either able to track down the rest of the stuff, nor find a manual or setup sheet for it and a few years ago ended up trying to get the LEDs out but finally just tossed it with so many other projects with more potential.
Back when TWI was still in business down in Texas I was talking with one of the tech (Steven and David?) guys about a WRL-8000 mod and I casually mentioned that the AWS display looked a lot like their work. He said that they had built a 'lot' of stuff for them, but I didn't have time to find out if it was just the display, or the rest of the hardware or what. I was under the impression that the AWS project was the brainstorm of some guy and was pushing to get it into a lot of schools out east, at least to start.
AS was typical of TWI, they were very tight lipped about how things worked and no diagrams, etc. were available for any of their stuff except the wiring harness and things that Kevin at one time had on this site. I probed a bit about a solar sensor that I had, and original TWI issued, which was basically a 1/2 sphere of epoxy on a foot long aluminum angle iron, and if something else would replace it since they wanted a whopping $300 for one of theirs! I didn't manage to get diddly out of them, but one later phone call I got the friendlier of the two and he hinted that taking a LiCor and putting it on and fiddling with the scaling factors would do the same thing. He never would tell me the photodiode they used for their sensor. I think I have had like six solar sensors over the years and none from TWI.
The last pictures I saw of their storefront were from another guy on this forum (or had been) and there were a couple of work benches covered in piles of manuals and schematics, along with a few 4 drawer filing cabinets with manuals and paper stacked in the drawers. I would imagine all that proprietary stuff got stored, probably to never see the light of day again, and things like the EPROM code would be nigh unto impossible to re-create. And along with it, most likely the AWS stuff too, but while this doesn't solve your quest for what is inside the box, I just thought I'd pass this along
Dale
PS, I always thought that the stuff was advanced for it's time, and since wirelless hadn't come along, they were doing a lot of stuff with hard wired stations. And, as one of the techs admitted, was so well built that it lasted a decade or so and was still chunking along, so repeat business for new stuff was the only income, very little in repair. Dale
