20 Oct
2010
20 Oct
'10
8:14 a.m.
On 10/20/10, Vincent Slyngstad <vrs at msn.com> wrote:
From: "Brad Parker": Wednesday, October 20,
2010 4:11 AM
And replace the 7453 and 7482 with something made with less unobtanium?
The memory extension hardware to take it over 4K is obviously
non-trivial in size (especially considering it doesn't fit in an -8/L
CPU enclosure). OTOH, if you have over 32K, there might as well be
provisions for OS/8-compatible mass storage, otherwise it's just a
papertape machine with more than 4K.
-ethan
(I still like the idea of a big PCB with lots of
TTL which functions an
8/I. I'd buy one :-)
Hmm. I might choose the 8/L for something like that. Possibly soup
up the memory to 32K, but leave out all the option cruft of the 8/I
backplane.