20 Sep
2006
20 Sep
'06
12:13 a.m.
Allison <ajp166 at bellatlantic.net> wrote:
Well, you can maybe still buy Quckware PDP-11 boards, so there are still
new PDP-11 systems shipped. http://www.quickware.com/
Also, I'm not sure what I would call Strobe Data's Osprey systems...
(http://www.strobedata.com/)
But yeah, I think Mentec have stopped selling hardware.
None of the CPUs mentioned above comes near the PDP-11 in longevity,
even though they are long runners.
The best candidate is maybe the Z80, since it's still in production and
going strong. Not sure if the 1802 still is around, both the 1802 and
Z80 came years after the PDP-11. The PDP-8 systems stopped manufacturing
quite a while ago, and while they started before the PDP-11, I think the
PDP-11 have passed them now.
Johnny
Subject: Re:
Bet you didn't know...(PDP-11)
From: "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 08:30:40 -0700
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at
classiccmp.org>,
cctech at classiccmp.org
At 7:09 AM -0400 9/19/06, Allison wrote:
Is Mentec still selling them? From the last time I looked at the
website, it looked like they were only reselling emulators instead of
real hardware now.
Still up until recently they were selling new boards.
Zane
They may well have stopped cpu production but only recently.The only CPUs
that have been around near as long in production are:
PDP-8 (cmos 6100 and 6120)
1802
Z80 Subject: Bet you didn't know...(PDP-11)
From: Julian Wolfe <fireflyst at earthlink.net>
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 00:07:49 -0500
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
As of September 30, 2006, the last PDP-11 that rolled off the line
will finally be 10 years old.
The PDP-11 EOL was actually September 30,1996.
Mentec continued it and you can still buy new 11 based boards.
Allison