It seems every time I turn around, I find something
else I either
haven't seen in a while, or don't know anything about it. In this case,
I picked up a brand new Digilog 1500 some number of years ago. It is
not on the "Big List" so does anyone know anything about this?
Yeah, I know a little about Digilogs. Used to use one quite a bit; when I
started working here, that was the CP/M machine of choice and we had a
couple of them (the non-CP/M machine of choice were the Micro PDP-11s that
DEC kept throwing at us). Someone had built a custom interface between one
of them and a PC05 to punch paper tape to ship out to folks who did our
wire-wrapping (the software to generate the paper tapes was either in
FORTRAN on the PDP-11s or PL/I-80 on the Digilogs; shortly after I arrived
we moved the FORTRAN version to the VAX-11/780 we had just installed (sigh;
I was the only user of the 11/780 most of the time and I had a whole
gigabyte of RM05s to play with; those were the days), so I never had to use
the PL/I-80 version of the wirewrap software). We started picking up
Televideo 802s and 803s about that time and migrated from the Digilog to
them.
No promises, but I _may_ have a CP/M boot disk for the thing and (depending
on how recently my cow-orkers have cleaned their offices) I may be able to
find a bit of technical info.
Roger Ivie
ivie(a)cc.usu.edu