8 Jul
2015
8 Jul
'15
4:06 p.m.
On 07/06/2015 16:24, Toby Thain wrote:
On 2015-07-06 3:33 PM, Clem Cole wrote:
The OP most likely meant 2900 bit-slice -- common in all manner of
applications in the early 80s.
--S.
...
One other note about the MC-500. If was the first commercial
Multiprocessor UNIX ... display processor, a number of 29000's in the FP
and APP's units, more 29000 logic in the Data Acq Unit, ...
Pretty cool for early 1980s'
Small quibble - If you mean AMD 29K wasn't released until 1988? So
those boards must have come later than the MC-500 itself (~1984?)