On 07/12/2011 03:06 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
Nope a 3
computer household is PDP-8F, microPDP11/53, and a few VAXen,
Why does 'a few
VAXen' only count as one computer (rather than a few
computers)?
By type (cluster) or the 12 members (2 VS2000, 8 uVAX3100 (mixed
includes 2 /m76-GPX),
2uVAX-II(BA23 and 123). Yes, they sometimes run LAVC as the AIRPRT::
cluster (PIPER, CESSNA,
MOONEY, GASTRK, FBO, RUNWAY, VASI, ATIS, STINSON, REIL, TOWER,
VIDSYS). VIDSYS:: a
uVAX-II/GPX in BA123 was my office VAX at DEC and came home with me
after the great
blood letting. I inherited it from Video Systems Engineering during my
tenure.
If I count PDP-11s 9 operational starting with a PDP11/03(LSI11),
11t23(F11), MicroPDP11/53,
my monster 11/73 (50" corp cab with RL02, RX02, multiple RDxx) and a few
BA11VA with 11/2
and 11/23 boards and TU58 storage. There are 4 system in BA11S boxes and
2 in BA23
and one in BA123.
For PDP-8 and clones 4, PDP-8f, Intersil sampler board(6100 cpu), HB
version of STGs6100,
and a 6100 made to look like like a 4K 8e (no EMA) but has std console.
Several COSMAC 1802 based including original COSMAC (Ca1978, my build),
STGs Embedded
1802 with expansion, and a handful of HB 1802s as projects for fun.
If I could system I have a long list of them (about 50) in catagories of
DEC, CP/M based,
TI99/4A, and SBCs. Among the oddball SBCs I have a IMSAI IMP-48 (8035 cpu).
The largest group is the DEC or DEC based, and the CP/M based systems.
The latter has:
2 NS* Horizons (both have hard disks) One built by me in '78
1 Altair 8800 (I started assembling it in December 1974 SN00200)
1 Altair 8800BT (turnkey business system)
1 NS Advantage with hard disk
1 Kaypro 4/84
1 Kaypro-II (the later 2)
1 AmproLB+
1 Compupro 816 with disks drive both hard and floppy. I have Z80, 68K
and 8085/8088 CPU for it.
1 CCS (complete save for I use Heath H207 8" disks)
1 Vt180 complete
1 VT185 (Vt180 with VT125 video and DEC paddle board)
3 Epson PX8 with wedges and 3.5" disk unit.
1 Osborne 1
3 VT180 board setup as standalone one running at 6mhz with CF
1 Netronics Explorer85 (8085 with S100)
1 SB180 (micromint) with SCSI option and 20mb hard disk
1 BCC180 with added CF (64mb) added via the 8255 PPI
1 Commadore 128 with disks running CP/M
Likely forgot one or two. I didn't list out all the SBCs as they are
operational
but need to be hooked up to a terminal and power where the listed system
are generally operational (move it into the open and turn on) or in
frequent
use.
I generally do not count PCs but I keep a few 386SX/25 boards as spares
and a pair of Dell 486 pizza boxes for their ISA bus. (all are certifiably
12+ years old).
PCs don't
count but the
NS* horizon z80 system does.
3 computer household : HP9810, HP9820, HP9830 ;-)
Not an unhappy family. ;)
Allison