11 Mar
2011
11 Mar
'11
3:05 p.m.
On 3/11/11 5:38 PM, Brent Hilpert wrote:
I have a very passing acquaintance with a Foxboro
system. When I
mentioned this on the list a couple of years ago Al supplied some
Foxboro docs via bitsavers. They seemed to suggest that the Fox-1 used
or was a minicomputer of Foxboro's own design and manufacture ca. 1969,
for their large-plant/heavy-industry computer-based process control system.
It would be interesting then if the Fox-2 was PDP-11-based. That is, did
Foxboro give up on making their own hardware, take their process-control
software/OS and port it to PDP-11 hardware and then sell rebadged PDP-11s?
I extracted a couple of photos from the Fox-2 doc at the
archive.computerhistory.org:
http://www3.telus.net/~bhilpert/tmp/foxboro/
So for PDP-11 experts, could the machine in the photos be a rebadged/OEM
PDP-11 ca. 1972 ?
That looks exactly like a PDP-11/20 front panel.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL