10 Apr
2015
10 Apr
'15
12:10 p.m.
Hey Guys do what I just did .. Go to Google type in rope memory.. Read
and then comment.
Its perfectly true that that DEC only used diode matrixes for bootstrap
boards.
They were easy to change and suitable for customers
However you need to understand the culture back then.
Engineers were encouraged to try any technology they chose and they
chose just about everything.
Rod
On 10/04/2015 17:08, Johnny Billquist wrote:
On 2015-04-10 16:38, geneb wrote:
Did the PDP14 (or any machine of that era) ever
use hand-threaded (by
the end user) core boards as ROM?
Hand threaded or not, core is not rom...
Johnny