11 Dec
2012
11 Dec
'12
5:17 p.m.
On 12/11/2012 03:34 PM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
The 11/750 was physically smaller, used 110VAC (on a
30A receptacle),
clocked in around 60% as fast as the 11/780, but was limited initially
to 2MB (later 8MB, then finally 14MB) and since it had 3 "CMI" slots
could only have up to 3 MASSBUS adapters and up to 2 Unibuses (but not
simultaneously - 1 Unibus came "free", the other took up a CMI slot).
We ran ours on 208V, I think we had 4MB; we used a Fuji Eagle drive and
a CDC cartridge drive for disks and a Cipher streamer for tape. It
worked pretty well.
The 730, on the other hand, was something of a wimp. I was offered one
when Sorcim dumped theirs and I refused it. Microprocessor technology
was catching up too fast to consider giving it a home.
--Chuck