25 Jun
2024
25 Jun
'24
10:56 p.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
I remember my friend, Debbie, who worked as a CE for
DEC back in the
primordial ages, made a big deal about the Super Foonly.
Have any working Foonly systems survived?
The Stanford Super Foonly was designed, but never built. The project
ran out of ARPA funding in the earl 70s. There may or may not be SUDS
drawing and/or microcode in the Saildart archives.
There was ever only one Foonly F1. It was used in movie production, but
no one knows where it ended up.
I have seen bits and pieces of the smaller Foonlies in musems catalogs
and such. I doubt there's anything complete enough to be considered
working. But who knows, there were a few made and maybe one will pop up
from somewhere eventually.
Software wise, besides running the standard PDP-10 stuff. There is a
copy of Foonex, the Foonly hacked TENEX, on Bitsavers. There is also
microcode for the F2, and it even comes with a working assembler should
anyone want to hack it. WAITS can run on a Foonly.