12 Oct
2019
12 Oct
'19
3:31 p.m.
There's a cheap General Automation SPC 16/45 on
eBay that someone needs
to get. It's for pickup only
in Royal Oak, MI otherwise I would go for it. Includes a disk drive.
Looks like it needs to be gone in a week.
See:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/General-Automation-1972-SPH-45-16-Minicomputer-Con…
Bob
One other interesting thing I recall with the SPC-16 was that it had a < 1RU-high
pull-out
table for putting a manual on when toggling. IIRC this is the grey panel/bar immediately
below the console as shown in the eBay photos.
It seemed a really great idea but I've not seen any similar programmer console benches
in
other 70s minicomputers, although a 1978 DEC catalog I have shows they had one available
as part no. A-H950-G for the H960. The line drawing seems to show it folds down rather
than
slides in like the GA one.