5 Sep
2007
5 Sep
'07
12:54 a.m.
Jason T wrote:
On 9/4/07, woodelf <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca>
wrote:
there is a tabletop box with nixies and keys and switches. There is a
box, not a mainframe
that was about the size of a desktop in the case of the ones at UMR that
several heads
were connected to. I believe that they had payed in the tens of
thousands for a unit with
5 or so heads and a card reader for entering programs, in 1970 dollars.
I have seen both the head and the processor and a working unit on ebay,
but not very
often.
I have one of the card reader units, but nothing else.
Jim
Well they still may be a good but slow
calculator!
At the original price they where built to last and are doing
so still.
Ben alias woodelf.
But aren't they simply front-end units to a central processor? I
didn't think the 300 could do anything on it's own..