36bit still in use ?

Sorry, I was just alluding to the "board" inside the ~1U device labeled as "XKL TOAD-2" in the video at around 0:30 in. Watching it a second time through, however, it appears that the TOAD-2 box shown in the video actually contains two discrete boards! I don't think that's an off-the-shelf product, LOL. I assume the board is a common system controller used in their network equipment product line and the TOAD-2 is a one-off; a few system controllers from stock, a chassis with plexiglas lid swapped in and a few extra holes drilled... produced per request of a good customer ;) I'm wondering now, do you think the TOAD-2 actually does anything? Or is it just a static display to demonstrate minimization of the PDP-10 over time? Can it run TOPS? Or is it just a router lacking any network interfaces?

Best, Sean On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at update.uu.se> wrote: > On 2014-11-28 23:19, David Griffith wrote: > >> On Fri, 28 Nov 2014, Johnny Billquist wrote: >> >> On 2014-11-28 17:13, Sean Caron wrote: >>> >>>> Whaaa? That's actually something a little bit different; I didn't >>>> even know >>>> there was such a thing as a TOAD-2. >>>> >>>> Does anyone here know how many units of the TOAD-2 were ever sold? Who >>>> bought them? >>>> >>>> That board looks so close to mini-ITX form factor... they should start >>>> selling them bare... it would look great next to my Atom boxes!! >>>> >>> >>> As far as I understood it, they are still selling them. >>> >> >> How does one obtain one of these boards? >> > > Boards? It's a group of products for networks... > If you deduct the name of the product from the name of the firmware > (Darkstar), you can see a whole bunch of products at www.xkl.com that are > "Darkstar". I don't know if all of them use the TOAD-2, but it is > possible... > > Johnny > > > -- > Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus > || on a psychedelic trip > email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books > pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol >