6 Nov
2020
6 Nov
'20
11:37 a.m.
My memories of SEL beginnings are dusty. and rusty. I recall a bunch
of their systems being used in science related efforts, beecause of
the high IO capability. At the time, for NASA and others, it was the
ideal platform for data collection. Not a bad compute capability -
many other systems in that space could do compute efforts more
quickly, but the none could match data IO for years. iirc, this was in
both the 16 and 32 bit lines.
I alwo recall when some folks from DEC VAX et al efforts left and
joined SEL - yep there is some back story there.
bob
On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 2:35 PM Eric Moore via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Hello, I have pulled together a website with links to resources and
information on SEL, or Systems Engineering Laboratories.
http://mnembler.com
SEL was a computer manufacturer in the 60s and 70s which later was acquired
by Gould and then Encore. They made many major innovations and were
instrumental in the success of the Apollo program.
The website is still a work in progress, but I did want to share it with
yall.
-Eric