24 Jan
2008
24 Jan
'08
5:46 p.m.
Al Kossow wrote:
In Aug, 2004, Jim Battle wrote:
That is a great find! Thanks for posting it.
A few months back I made contact with the the guy who was the lead of
the software group at BTI. He said he'd check around to see what docs
he had, but he didn't get back to me. I'll ping him again and point to
your directory so he gets the idea that there would be a good home for
this information.
A while back I bought the AFIPS 79 proceedings as there is an article in
it where BTI describes some features of their architecture. However, I
don't dare scan and post the article as IEEE still actively protects its
copyrights. If the CHM could ask the IEEE for permission to post that
one article, I'd happily scan it and forward it to you.
Speaking of core memory, I used to work for a
company that was still
shipping core-based systems in 1985, when I first joined them right out
of college.
The machine was the "BTI 8000", made by BTI Computer Systems, based in
Sunnyvale, CA. I worked there for only a year, but I have some
recollection of the machine.
I turned up a brochure and technical summary last night, scans up under
http://bitsavers.org/pdf/bti