To Richard and Allison, we just have the "computer" units and I have not
seen themm personally to speculate on how they might work.
One other unit was dismanteled and was going to become art, and was
retrieved along with its card cage, but that is all I know. I believe
that this is one of the university units described and the university
discarded it to a professor, then the professor discarded it to us. It
may have been functional when the department which had it was using it,
don't know.
I'm not going to be able to do much with it any time soon, but the
Bitsaver's archive has an empty directory for the D17. Not wanting Al
to think about it, just looked to see if there was anything.
was the "disk" solid state, or was it a drum, as was the storage for the
LGP-30? sounds like the same sort of situation, since its storage was
on drum as well.
Jim
On 5/25/2011 12:43 PM, allison wrote:
On 05/25/2011 12:31 PM, Richard wrote:
In article<4DDD2B86.40108 at jwsss.com>,
jim s<jws at jwsss.com> writes:
John B and I have one of the units + all the
cards from a second one.
We need the disk drive. for the unit to have it function.
Wouldn't it be
better to emulate the disk at this point?
Or are you saying you need the *contents* of the disk in order to make
it funciton?
The machine is serial so you need the disk as it's both program store
and it serves as "registers". It would be possible to simulate all that
using shift registers of the correct length.
Allison