25 Apr
2020
25 Apr
'20
2:25 a.m.
On 4/24/20 6:58 PM, Nigel Johnson via cctalk wrote:
Does anybody have a wp made by AES?
In the late 70's, they were experimenting with voice recognition for
their systems. We were a nearby DEC Components OEM and had a hundred or
so LSI11/23 modules in stock.? They sent an engineer over to our plant,
took out the whole stock, and replaced the 13.824 MHz clock crystal
module with the output of a function generator to see how high they
could overclock it to get the response they needed for voice
recognition. I think they bought the 4 or 5 that passed diagnostics with
the highest clock speed, somewhere near 40 MHz IIRC.
Some years ago, I received a Harris/AES hard-sector 8" floppy from a
friend of a newspaper reporter. Took me forever to decode the format,
after which I wasn't able to locate the customer.
I do recall that those systems were quite popular in the newspaper
trade, however.
Here's a video documentary from CBC relating the sad story of that
Canadian tech outfit.
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1890827641
--Chuck