23 Apr
2024
23 Apr
'24
3:36 a.m.
Hey, I did that on Sunday afternoons on the Star-100 with Lincoln and his son PD when I
was in 8th grade. I never became a manager though :-)
Chris
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Chris Elmquist
On Apr 22, 2024, at 3:22 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 4/22/24 13:02, Wayne S wrote:
I read somewhere that the cable lengths were
expressly engineered to provide that signals arrived to chips at nearly the same time so
as to reduce chip “wait” times and provide more speed.
That certainly was true for the 6600. My unit manager, fresh out of
UofMinn had his first job with CDC, measuring wire loops on the first
6600 to which Seymour had attached tags that said "tune".
But then, take a gander at a modern notherboard and the lengths (sic) to
which the designers have routed the traces so that timing works.
--Chuck