On 9/23/15 2:56 PM, Sean Caron wrote:
Ah, so these are the
vintagetech.com machines! Please
take lots of pics of
the DPS-8 inside and out; I've never really seen the innards of a Honeywell
machine before and I'm kind of curious what their "style" looks like.
Best,
Sean
I put a few pictures up here:
http://yahozna.dyndns.org/scratch/dps6/
Nice bitslice processor in there, an Ethernet controller, some memory
(looks like 2MB) and as for the other boards, I'm not yet sure...)
- Josh
On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 5:47 PM, Dave G4UGM <dave.g4ugm at gmail.com> wrote:
> Many years ago we used them as Data Entry machines, but I have no
> documents and have forgotten everything I knew.
>
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>> Dersch
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>> Subject: Honeywell/Bull DPS-6 deskside info?
>>
>> Along with the 11/44 I also picked up a Honeywell/Bull DPS-6 deskside
>> workstation; I can't seem to dig up much information specific to this
> model (a
>> badge on the rear labels it as "Model/Index No. B01732"). I can take
> some
>> detailed pictures later this week after I've had time to clean it up
> (it's very,
>> very dirty), but it looks very similar to the DPS-6 unit pictured on
> this site:
>>
http://www.feb-patrimoine.com/projet/gcos6/gcos6.htm
>>
>> Anyone have any docs on this thing? Or fun anecdotes to share? What
> have
>> I gotten myself into with this thing?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Josh
>