12 Aug
2012
12 Aug
'12
11:20 a.m.
My personal opinion is that something local and
unusual would be nice.
As we are in Manchester, for a long time one of the spiritual homes of
Sure.
However, I am not convinced (and this is very much a personal opinion)
that a modern macnine running an emulator is 'spiritually' close to the
real iron.
ICL, and as there appear to be no ICL1900's left
running anywhere, i
would haev thought that Dave Holdsworth's ICL1900 emulator with George
would be a most appropriate machine... It used to live at
www.icl1900.co.uk but that appears to be down...
Did those ICL machiens use ASCII? The reason I ask is that I was given a
data logger system that outputed the loggesd data on paper tape, and it
came from a company that used an ICL mainframe. The chracter code in the
data logger was set by solderign diodes to form a 16*8 ROM, and the
pattern when I got it was nowhere near ASCII.
[I changed it when I got the logger, ASCII being a lot more use to me
than an ICL code, but I probably have a record of the original pattern
somewhere]