1 Nov
1998
1 Nov
'98
8:30 a.m.
I suspect that you have several. Hence, what is currently in your
repository?
One interesting piece I have is a MicroWay 80860 board. It is
generally described as a single chip Cray 1, and can in bursts
(perhaps at greater rates) compute at 80MFLOPS on a 40MHz
clock. As it happens, this processor is not quite fast enough but,
with about 10 times the power, one could watch movies of flights
about the Mandelbrot set in real time at about 1600 by 1280 pixels
in 24 bit color.
William R. Buckley
-----Original Message-----
From: Megan <mbg(a)world.std.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Date: Sunday, November 01, 1998 2:21 PM
Subject: Re: PDP-11/44 boot prompt
For me, a personal computer is defined as any
computer that I own and
operate. If I could find a SYS/360 or SYS370, or Sigma/7 or Sigma/9 or
That's exactly how I've viewed it as well. When I told people that
my personal computer was a pdp-11/93 or a uVax system, they generally
balked at the idea, though. I've had to remind them that it is a
computer (that's never in question), and that I own it and use it.
Hence a *personal* computer... And although I didn't have one back
when the Imsai became available, I did get my first one (an 11/10)
in 1980.
Megan Gentry
Former RT-11 Developer
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