23 Dec
2001
23 Dec
'01
10:11 a.m.
William Donzelli wrote:
Wow. I'm officially envious :-) I'll have to poke around on the -S
designation -- I wasn't too involved with the 16-bit stuff during my
tenure at ROLM.
Did you get
programmer's consoles with any of these machines?
No (I assume you mean a switches-and-lights thing). Of the 1602Bs, two
appear to be unused. The Loral machines are definitely unused (one is
still sealed). The 1666B-S (does the "S" mean anything?) is definitely
used, and is crammed with interface cards. Do all 1602Bs have core memory?
Yes. Many applications for the ROLM machines didn't include any
sort of mass storage; the intent being that the operating
system, applications and even file system were gen'ed into an
image that was loaded once into memory where it persisted in
core.
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