On 3/3/2020 4:18 PM, Jules Richardson via cctalk wrote:
Hopefully collective wisdom can help on this one - does anyone have a
clue what system this core board was from:
http://www.classiccmp.org/acornia/tmp/coresmall.jpg
The curved edge connectors (presumably to make board insertion easier)
are quite distinctive, plus the way the power's fed in via an edge
connector on the "far" side of the board. What's interesting to me is
the core ring size; the TTL ICs on the board have 1970 date codes, but
I didn't think that the rings got quite that small until right at the
end of core's era, more toward the end of the decade.
It seems to be 8 blocks of 64x64, i.e. 4KB. p/n on the main board of
2001000755, and just hidden from view under the core daughterboard is
a logo that says "LEC", which I suppose might be meaningful.
There's a bigger (2181x1863) image as "coreboard.jpg" in the same dir
if more detail helps (I doubt it), but it's 2.4MB so maybe save Jay's
bandwidth by only looking at that one if you absolutely have to :-)
thanks,
Jules
LEC was the Lockheed Electronics Company, Avionics and Industrial
Products Division, located in Los Angeles.? part number noted matches
their part numbering structure.? I have manuals for two of their devices
that were rack mountable core memory systems.? The CE-100 product
brochure described it as 4K, 8K, &16K words up to 36bits targeting small
and medium computer central memory.
Steve