20 Mar
2002
20 Mar
'02
12:02 a.m.
Anyone know about Plexus minicomputers? I am going to pick one up soon.
I'm told it's about 3-4 feet high by 2 feet wide by 5-6 feet deep, and
heavy.
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20 Mar
20 Mar
8:34 a.m.
Sellam;
It's a Multibus, Unix-based system running on multiple Z8000 processors. The
October 1983 BYTE has a little info on it on page 140, if you happen to have
that issue lying around.
--Mike
Michael Nadeau
Editor/Publisher
Classic Tech, the Vintage Computing Resource
www.classictechpub.com
Anyone know about Plexus minicomputers? I am going to pick one up soon.
I'm told it's about 3-4 feet high by 2 feet wide by 5-6 feet deep, and
heavy.
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Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer
Festival
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10:07 p.m.
On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Michael Nadeau wrote:
It's a Multibus, Unix-based system running on
multiple Z8000 processors.
The October 1983 BYTE has a little info on it on page 140, if you happen
to have that issue lying around.
I picked it up yesterday. I was mostly trying to determine it's size and
heft, as the guy who had it characterized it as being a behemoth. Turns
out I was able to lift it into my SUV after taking off the skins and
removing the 8" hard drives.
It's a model P75. I was under the impression that it was 68000 based but
being Z8000 based makes it much cooler. This machine was going to be used
to create a trading floor for the seafood market, but the company went
bust before they got very far.
I have the marketing literature for the machine but haven't had a chance
to go through it yet.
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9:12 a.m.
New subject: PDP11/45 microcode?
Anybody have a machine readable version on the
11/45 microcode? Worse case a scan of a manual
or fiche? It's for an fpga-11/45 implementation project.
thanks,
Heinz
21 Mar
21 Mar
2:37 a.m.
Sounds like something written by Henry miller.
On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
Anyone know about Plexus minicomputers? I am going to pick one up soon.
I'm told it's about 3-4 feet high by 2 feet wide by 5-6 feet deep, and
heavy.
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Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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