29 Dec
2004
29 Dec
'04
8:57 p.m.
On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 07:24, Andy Holt wrote:
I was going to suggest something like this:
http://home.the-wire.com/~mwilson/his/DSS170.html
(Honeywell version of the IBM 2314) but 16k microcode seems a lot for a
disk controller and I don't see why it would need to be 16-bit.
--
Lawrence Wilkinson lawrence(a)ljw.me.uk
The IBM 360/30 page http://www.ljw.me.uk/ibm360
Can anyone
identify the system this panel came from?
http://sturgeon.cac.psu.edu/~mloewen/Testpanel/
The previous owner thought it was from a Univac mainframe, but on the
circuit side is a "HIS" marking (Honeywell Information Systems?).
Hmm, appearance seems to indicate a 60s/70s design and a 16/32-bit machine.
It's a lot in the style of the Honeywell mainframes but they were mostly 36
bit - and the processor maintenance panels took-up most of a door (and they
were tall doors!).
Could it be a peripheral controller (probably disk) for their clone of the
'360?