19 Oct
2005
19 Oct
'05
3:14 p.m.
Has anyone done a similar thing with their vintage
systems? On the 8080,
the M1 signal could be used; I'm not sure offhand about other processors.
Come to think of it, the SGI 4D/380 has an LED bar graph matrix on the
front panel to show performance for each of the 8 CPUs.
And how could I forget the Systems Industries cache controller used on my
school's old VAX-11/780 - it was connected to two Fujitsu Eagles, and had
a truely massive LED bargraph for hit rate.
What a completely useless, expensive, way cool feature...
William Donzelli
aw288 at osfn.org