29 Mar
2012
29 Mar
'12
11:34 p.m.
Good Heavens!!
A survivor. I only saw it once or twice but Jon Giver worked on one for six
months.
I remember a gray rack mounted box with lamps and small toggle (Lemo type)
switches.
Well John you have a real piece of UK computer history. There can't have
been that many made. Is there any identifying marks or labels on the rack?
Regards
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Rod Smallwood
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-----Original Message-----
From: cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org]
On Behalf Of John Honniball
Sent: 29 March 2012 23:57
To: General Discussion: On-Topic Posts Only
Subject: Re: Arcturus Minicomputer
Rod Smallwood wrote:
Well there's a turn up for the book.
They must have made at least two then!!
I have the card cage from one of them, which was installed
at the University of London in the 1970s. It's a sub-rack
full of PCBs with SSI and MSI TTL chips on them. I have
no other parts of the machine, nor do I have any manuals
or software.
I also worked with another UK machine made by Digico
I think I saw a room full of those at Essex Uni in the
1980s, for machine-code classes.
--
John Honniball
coredump at gifford.co.uk