28 Nov
2006
28 Nov
'06
12:28 a.m.
Jos Dreesen / Marian Capel wrote:
Chris M wrote:
Just curious, where do NorskData minis fit in this?:
How prevalent were they in the European marketplace compared to, for
example, PDP-11s?
Were they not used much in Britain (why doesn't Tony have any)?, more
popular on the continent perhaps?
Never see them here in Canada. I recall seeing a bank of (some model) in the
beam-control room at CERN, in 1985, but I don't know whether that was an
indication of their popularity/success or part of a bureacratic mandate to
spread the purchasing money around to member countries.
And what about Siemens? I have a perhaps incorrect impression of them making
business mainframes (370-plug-compatible?), but did Siemens make a
'general purpose' mini?
So what do some of the starrier UK and mainland
European machines go for? Heck which are they?
ETH Lilith's : 2901 based machine with Modula-2 M-code as machine
language. Developed and deployed at the ETH in Switzerland, build in Utah !
ETH Ceres : 32000-based machine for Oberon development
I have yet to see one on any auction site.
Also Philips minis are rare indeed.