Gene Buckle wrote:
Hi Gene,
What sort of pictures do you want? I'm taking hi-res photos of
everything. The pictures cover the top external and internal and
package, but the underside of the boards are hidden at present.
The boards are silk screened with the signals on top, but the wiring
is a "rats-nest", literally.
The description given tells me it's clearly not the machine I played
with. Thanks for offering though!
Othello? I thought it might have enough memory to
play NIM, but I'm
surprised anything like othello was possible.
This machine is packaged in a 22"X14"X8" sloping console cabinet.
Blue enameled steel on the base and brushed aluminum with red
silkscreen surrounding the incandescent lamps and tons of switches on
the top
It has storage(switches) for 16X8 bit instructions, An acc and 16 or
32?X8 bit memory registers.
The NRI machine I'm thinking of had a keyboard mounted in a sloping
metal cabinet and used a TV set as a display. It was fun making it
battle the '64 in Othello. I just can't recall which one did better. :)
g.
This one is a simple computer trainer. Much more than a walnut sided
DEC logic trainer, a lot less then ANY micro SBC . The implementation is
about 50-60+? SSI/MSI TTL parts spread across eight circuit boards that
each implement a functional unit, such as: instruction decoder, ALU,
memory, timing , display, switch memory...???
I didn't know NRI built anything other than ham radio trainer kits until
I was given this toy in 91.
cheers,
Jim.