14 Apr
2015
14 Apr
'15
11:33 a.m.
On 4/14/15 11:26 AM, Al Kossow wrote:
On 4/14/15 2:07 AM, Nigel Williams wrote:
dumps of the tapes would be a good thing, but is is going to be difficult to recover them
given their physical condition
I hope someone is able to rescue this system, if
you're curious a
brief overview is here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burroughs_B1700
A really unusual and interesting system, particularly the loadable
microcode for new instruction sets. This is quite definitely a R at R3
L@@K super-rare unusual system (to overwork an eBay meme).
If someone gets this, I have lots of spares which probably aren't going to be
around past this summer.
There are a couple of obvious things missing, like the cold-start cassette and
any disk drives.