19 Nov
2001
19 Nov
'01
11:32 p.m.
Noteably the Bridgeport company consumed some 100,000 LSI-11
card sets for their NC systems. Later I think Falcon(T11) cards
were also used and I've seena fair number of PDP-8s mated to the
larger vertical mills. Thats not even close to exhaustive list. Other
cpus (HP, Cincinatti Millichron, Z80 based, 6800 and 6502 as well).
Allison
-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Koller <vze2mnvr(a)verizon.net>
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Date: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 4:46 AM
Subject: Re: HP 3000 No More (legacy)
ajp166 wrote:
For those CNC tools with PDP-8 or PDP11s running
them
What mfg. model CNC machines run on PDP's?
ajp166 wrote:
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire(a)neurotica.com>
On November 17, Stan Sieler wrote:
Dead to me is broken. Obsolete is when it cant forfill the intesded task
or when it has reached a level of repair difficulty where replacement is
an option. For those CNC tools with PDP-8 or PDP11s running them
that number is still over $50,000 to upgrade and 100s of thousands of
dollars to replace. In the face of that the PDP-8 that still makes good
flanges is cheap at $2000 for a working cold spare.
For example I was given three working 386(mono) and 486(color) laptops
as too weak to be useful. Fully working machines with Xircom network
adaptors and all!
Allison PA-RISC is dead/dying ... HP has said so. IA-64
killed it.
[knee-jerk reaction to a pet peeve follows]
Well, as long as "dead" can be defined as "salespeople don't want to
sell you a new one". For me, it can't. I can pick up the phone and
buy PDP8 equipment from a commercial vendor. How long ago was THAT
architecture discontinued?
For me, something is "dead" (or "obsolete" or whatever you want to
call it) when it can no longer do its job adequately and