On 2014-11-28 17:13, Sean Caron wrote:
Whaaa? That's actually something a little bit
different; I didn't even know
there was such a thing as a TOAD-2.
Does anyone here know how many units of the TOAD-2 were ever sold? Who
bought them?
That board looks so close to mini-ITX form factor... they should start
selling them bare... it would look great next to my Atom boxes!!
As far as I understood it, they are still selling them.
Johnny
Best,
Sean
On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Pontus Pihlgren <pontus at update.uu.se>
wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 04:26:09PM +0100, Jacob Dahl Pind wrote:
>>
>> <qoute>
>> Unfortunately I do not have much details. I was at the Living
>> Computer Museum and talked with RIch Alderson, who used to work at
>> XKL. And he showed me a
>> newer generation router from XKL, opened up, at LCM. And they use a
>> PDP-10 on a chip, and it was actually running TOPS-20, and I could
>> play around at the
>> EXEC level in there.
>> </quote>
>
> The system refered to above is visible next to the TOAD-1 in this video
> clip, arround 30 seconds in.
>
>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=We3BEaiz194
>
> I've know for a while that it's been a 36 bit machine under the hood but
> I was told that it is limited in some way, perhaps not a full pager. It
> would be fun to get some details. (And if you can get one for yourself
> of course).
>
> Regards,
> Pontus.
>
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