Related note: Anybody on the list know anything
on DEC's first product, the Lab Module series?
I'm interested in the operating principles of
the things.
You need the book _Computer Engineering: A DEC View of Hardware Systems
Design_, by C. Gordon Bell, J. Craig Mudge, and John E. McNamara. Out
of print, but usually not too hard to find.
It's available online at
http://www.ulib.org/webRoot/Books/Saving_Bell_Books/Computer_Engineering/co…
But this is definitely a good book to have in one's library in dead-tree form.