10 Mar
2016
10 Mar
'16
2:36 a.m.
I had the 'opportunity' to take apart 80's era programmable logic
controllers:
Gould Modicon 584: AMD 2901 bitslice based
TI 520, pm 550: TMS 9900 (no suprise here)
TI 565: (Motorola 68000, after designers complained to mgmt, dont force us to use ti
micros)
Allen Bradley PLC2: AMD 2901, peripherals and comm modules KF etc z-80
I knew some of the designers, when asked why the 2901, well speed of course, and second
that their own microcode instruction set was 'provable' and could be man rated on
these processors.
Randy
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Subject: Re: Early Microprocessors in Industrial Microcomputers
On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 2:36 PM, william degnan <billdegnan at gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 2:30 PM, Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net>
wrote:
Obviously different than the first microcomputers designed for smaller
tasks in an industrial setting, but I agree that certainly the last of the
Win 2000 systems are still churning away customize applications for
business purposes in the backrooms of shops, plants, etc..
... and to that end some of the first micros made for business probably
survived for a long time after similar CPUs were long gone form the home.
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On Mar 9, 2016, at 1:54 PM, Chuck Guzis
<cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
...
I suspect that the nuclear power industry is one place that you'll find
the
oldest stuff, however, given the long regulatory approval process for
change.
I remember a nuclear reactor (research, not power generation) controlled
by a PDP-9.
paul