70's computers

ED SHARPE couryhouse at aol.com
Tue Oct 23 20:11:11 CDT 2018


both will run focal... but I need  focal 11 on paper tape I have asked several people  but have not heard if it is even available? 

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On Tuesday, October 23, 2018 Noel Chiappa via cctalk <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu; cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
PS:

> Not the simplest machine to implement, mind - the -8 is a lot
> simpler.

As a rough measure of how much more complex, the -8/E and -11/20 are roughly
contemporaneous, and built out of the same technology (SSI TTL on larger
boards): the -8/E CPU is 5 quad boards, and the -11/20 CPU is 9 quad board
(equivalents - some are duals, etc).

	Noel


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