19 Oct
2005
19 Oct
'05
3:12 p.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 10/19/2005 at 4:32 PM Julian Wolfe wrote:
A PDP that'll go all the way up to 11? :-)
Alright, so I'm getting carried away, but why
not? It's my computer :)
Well sure, why not? If you had an all static-CMOS MPU, you could even take
one of those big rheostats used for stage lighting and hook it up to a VFO
to provide a variable clock to your CPU. "Captain, if I turn it up any
higher, it'll blow for sure!". Didn't a couple of Honeywell mainframes use
bar-graph Nixie tubes to show
various system parameters?
I certainly recall *something* of the mainframe era with rather funky
displays, more in keeping with a scifi movie... buggered if I can
remember what it was now, though!
cheers
Jules