7 Jul
2005
7 Jul
'05
2:56 p.m.
>>>> "Vintage" == Vintage
Computer Festival <vcf at siconic.com> writes:
Vintage> On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Scott Stevens wrote:
> Even where IBM cards of that era used
'commodity' components, they
> were usually completely house-marked and impossible for a mere
> mortal to figure out. This goes all the way down to resistor
> networks and resistors/capacitors (except those few that have
> color-code bands.)
Vintage> DEC used standard components.
Sort of -- if you ignore the bus transceivers. And of course the
ASICs starting around 1980 or so.
paul