6 Apr
2015
6 Apr
'15
1:28 a.m.
On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 11:41 AM, <evan.linwood at eastek.com.au> wrote:
Is there anyone who can attack this at a higher level?
I'm happy to
pass on relevant details to anyone who could help positively (I don't
want to cause unnecessary aggravation by posting everything here, the
people I've spoken to have already been as helpful as they can).
Well done scouting out what happened, I've emailed Ralph to see if he
knows something.
If it's true that it is possibly one of the last
existing CPU frames
of the B5000 family, and if it went to one of the major Museums in the
US as a result, that would be a great outcome (if it still exists at
all).
Small correction, B7700/B7800 is a unique system, it's own family,
loosely related to the B6700 family (it was intended to be B6500/B6700
compatible, they diverged at one point and then forcibly merged back).
You could say an extant B7800 frame is a "last existing CPU frame of
Burroughs large-system", I don't know of any that survived intact,
although there are rumors.