8 Nov
2020
8 Nov
'20
7:02 p.m.
Eric:
Thanks for starting this. I've been doing little updates to the SEL
wikipedia pages recently, but a dedicated site would be great. I used the
machines heavily from 1977-1995, most of the 32/X series, as well as the
NP1. AFAIK, I was the first person to get C++ (cfront) working under
UTX-32.
Alas, I didn't save any literature from the period.
On Sun, Nov 8, 2020 at 4:34 PM Steve Malikoff via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Al said
On 11/6/20 12:11 PM, Tom Uban via cctalk wrote:
The ad must have worked. Although our uni was the first in Australia to
provide 11/780's
for teaching and research, in later years third year comp sci was moved to
a new Gould
PN6080, because they got a good deal. Everyone just called it "the Gould".
It's so hard to find a picture of this machine, a while ago I found an
eBay ad for the
PowerNode series which was about all I have.
Steve.
The ECL based logic was named
"firebreather" for a reason. They were the
fastest thing at the time.
If you look at the Gould advertising at the time, it was a picture of a
fire-breathing dragon toasting a DEC salesman running away.