What are the really unusual or weird computers?

Hi The Nicolet 1080 is a core memory machine with a 20 bit data word. It can address 64Kx20 but can only have program in the first 32K. They were only know to come in 12Kx20 and 24Kx20 that I know of. I doubt that even a thousand were made because it was a specialized lab machine, very few remain today. I only know of 4 still in existance today. 3 here on the west coast and one in the UK. Of these, only mine and the one in the UK are know to be operational. The two others could most likely be made to run but they are future projects for their owners. They had one nice feature to their BASIC and that is that it had built in matrix operations. Things like cross multiply and such. Collecting documents and software has been an experience. I got some paper tape software from Austria and some good manuals with schematics from Australia. Salam Ismail, that also has one, had a nice pile of paper tapes and some early documents that helped to get it debugged. There is still a chance that there may be more out there. I keep an eye out. Dwight _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail to go? Get your Hotmail, news, sports and much more! http://mobile.msn.com