23 Oct
2018
23 Oct
'18
2:07 p.m.
On 10/23/2018 1:30 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
On Tue, 23 Oct 2018, ben via cctalk wrote:
Since this is the CLASSIC **** LIST I only watch the 70's Dr Who :)
Modern computers are just to play with on the web
and read mail and
download DR WHO.
Remember when "personal" computers were on a par with model trains for
"practicality" and "usefulness".
I've got the Doctor Who MP4 files on a SATA III drive plugged into a
Seagate GoFlex-TV streamer.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred???????????? cisin at xenosoft.com
Still designing a early 1970's computer 74181 ALU/ 74170 RAM
256x4 PROMS and CORE STYLE memory. The design will be something 18
bits, just after the time the PDP-8/e came out.
Just waiting for my PDF reader to arrive so I can dig up more
information about that time on general purpose computers at that
time. You just seemed to have 3 kinds of computers back then,
a simple 16 or 12 bits, a decimal or special order product
or a large 32/36 bit machine in a educational or lab environment.
I have a lot of ideas, but I just can't find a clean simple design
yet.
I notice a people are digging up the PDP-8 as a computer. Basic
FPGA development cards are now a dime a dozen, so are there other
computers worth looking at in hind sight as re-build project
or simh emulation?
The PDP 11 is nice machine, but I am looking for simpler designs
where 16K words is a valid memory size for a OS and small single user
software.
Ben.