12 Aug
2012
12 Aug
'12
4:02 a.m.
{begin mercilous plug} TNMoC has an IBM 5080 connected to a PC/RT running CAD software on
display most public opening days. Thought I'd mention this tangentially in case the
system was of interest.{end mercilous plug}
Charles Dickman <chd at chdickman.com> wrote:
On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 12:02 AM, William Donzelli
<wdonzelli at gmail.com>wrote:
-- Colin
The 5080 family of terminals is probably up your alley. But, they
seem
to be rare.
These were CAD terminals, right? I have the board sets from about half
a
dozen of these. There were used with CADAM and were connected to a
4381. We
converted to a different CAD system in 1999 and all the mainframe stuff
was
scrapped because of Y2K. I wish I had gotten one complete system, but
they
were all sent to the dumpster. Somebody in the grounds crew discovered
that
there was a lot of aluminium in the chassis so they chopped them up and
with the intention of selling the aluminium and having a party. Not
sure if
the party ever happened, but they had no use for the boards.
There is a 68000 based computer and a 2900 based bit slice processor of
some kind on the boards. There is a floppy interface also. My intention
at
the time was to harvest the 2900 parts to build a homebrew processor.
In the long run, a complete system would have been much more
interesting.
-chuck