70's computers

B M iamvirtual at gmail.com
Fri Oct 26 16:19:02 CDT 2018


I believe I have a preliminary copy of Focal-11.

See: http://iamvirtual.ca/collection/systems/mediadoc/mediadoc.html
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On Wed, Oct 24, 2018, 06:11 ED SHARPE via cctalk, <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:

> 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?
>
> Sent from AOL Mobile Mail
>
> 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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