14 Jul
2005
14 Jul
'05
1:12 p.m.
On 7/13/05, Jim Battle <frustum at pacbell.net> wrote:
--- XOR website ---
A couple weeks ago I solicited input on the "Data Science XOR computer."...
Jerry Wright stepped up and very kindly sent me
scans of the manuals he had and made copies of boot floppies for me.
Cool! (read on...)
http://www.thebattles.net/xor/xor.html
It might worth ten minutes of idle browsing to some of you, or perhaps someone
has one on their shelf and could use the information. Likewise, if you have
something to share, please send it to me and I'll add it to the web site.
Indeed it was worth the browse - I think I have one of these, the larger size
depicted on trailingedge.com (more than 4 slots)... my sister-in-law is a
counter clerk at the Post Office, and one of her regular customers had one
in our neighborhood was looking to find a new home for his old computer.
I don't know how they got on to that topic, but at some point, she gave him
my name and I drove the 4 blocks to his house and loaded up a small pile
of S-100 stuff. I haven't had the time to look at it, but I'm really happy to
see there's a repository of info. I don't have any software or XOR-specific
docs, so everything there looks great.
Thanks, Jim, for collating this stuff and making it available.
-ethan