14 Aug
2015
14 Aug
'15
9:20 p.m.
The other mini I've gone down too deep a rathole on is the Pertec
Computer Corp XL40 (univac 1900) which was a third generation key-tape
system. Pertec bought Computer Machinery Corporation, who appears to
have made their own PDP-8 clone (Bob Rosenbloom has one)
http://www.dvq.com/oldcomp/photos2/1k/cmc3.jpg for the first generation,
then they used PDP-11's for the 1800, then microcoding
their own 16 bit computer for the XL/40. What I have been able to dig
up is under pertec/dataEntry. I'm still trying to figure out what the
instruction set actually was.
On 8/14/15 11:54 AM, Brent Hilpert wrote:
On 2015-Aug-13, at 9:44 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
I turned up some CPU info on it, which I uploaded
to bitsavers/lockheed/sue
Dumps of the programmable parts on the CPU would be nice if anyone has one.
So this was interesting, another in the list of 60s/70s minis - hadn't heard of it
previously.
Are there any known customers/applications that used it?
Didn't think I've seen a blinken-light front panel with worse graphics design
however.