5 Oct
2010
5 Oct
'10
8:33 p.m.
On Oct 5, 2010, at 3:16 PM, steve shumaker wrote:
With my limited exposure to the DEC/PDP stuff, this
looks strange... Z-80 chips on a QBus card? Is it noteworthy? worth bidding on?
unusual? just plain junk? What would it work with/in /on?
It's one of Virtual Microsystem's embedded processor boards. VMI made Qbus,
Unibus and Nova (Data General) bus boards which allowed the execution of CM/P and MS-DOS
(*not* PC-DOS) programs on DEC and DG hardware. The strangest of the bunch was a
multiprocessor 68020-based embedded PICK system that I ended up laying code for sometime
in the mid-80s.
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