3 Sep
2009
3 Sep
'09
10:27 a.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 2 Sep 2009 at 16:22, tp wrote:
Tom, there's a product announcement of the 8030 in the September 1976
IEEE Computer magazine. Says it's 8080 based, with editing features
(e.g. protected fields) and two display pages. The announcement
claims a top speed of 9600 bps, however.
This is 1976 ... did they have 9600 modems back then that a human could
afford!
The "New Products" section for that month is
certainly interesting.
Intersil announced their Intercept Jr. evaluation kit for the IM6100.
American MIcrosystems trotted out their development system for the
6800. EAI announced a new hybrid computer system. North Star had a
floating-point board for their systems. Interdata introduced two new
minis.
Any guesses what the hardware on the floating point board was?
But the thing that caught my eye was the HP 548A
"logic clip"--a
device built into a DIP test clip with an LED for each pin. It
featured self-seeking logic and would display the state of all pins
for RTL, TTL, DTL and CMOS logic families. It sounds very cool--and
I have never seen one in the flesh.
If you're an IEEE CS member, you can pick up a PDF of the "new
products" section from the IEEE web site. Otherwise, I can pass it
on to you for browsing.
Text based is fine with me.
Best regards,
Chuck
PS. The problem with old catalogs and products for sale, is that
it reminds me I wanted to buy said item at one time.