18 Aug
1999
18 Aug
'99
6:55 p.m.
Ask Rax about the great bus discussions on Rovernet....
On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Sellam Ismail wrote:
On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Daniel A. Seagraves wrote:
M. K. Peirce
Rhode Island Computer Museum, Inc.
215 Shady Lea Road,
North Kingstown, RI 02852
"Casta est qui nemo rogavit."
- Ovid
The computer itself is a 16-bit discrete-logic
machine, with scattered ICs.
It spans about 7 or 8 boards for the CPU itself, and about 16 or 17 for
64K or so of RAM. Dunno what it runs, as I can't power it on yet, but
Oh shit. That many cards for the CPU and RAM. Are you sure? If you are
right then this is an old sucker. I thought it would be quite a bit more
modern.
about 3" long?) Anyway, I haven't found
a TTY connection yet, but I
did find a Bell answer-only modem inside the rack (In fact, it had
broken free of it's mounting and was bouncing around inside the rack)
so it does have one somewhere.
The modem is for remote admin of course. Probably 300 baud, possibly
1200.
More as I find it out...
Keep us posted. I guess phone systems are no more off-topic than tea.
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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