7 Jul
2005
7 Jul
'05
5:02 a.m.
On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Scott Stevens wrote:
Even where IBM cards of that era used
'commodity' components, they were
usually completely house-marked and impossible for a mere mortal to
figure out. This goes all the way down to resistor networks and
resistors/capacitors (except those few that have color-code bands.)
DEC used standard components.
Hmm, another example of the more open nature of DEC vs. IBM? ;)
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