1 Oct
1998
1 Oct
'98
2:07 p.m.
Better get a small truck...
http://pc.dec-j.co.jp/support/may/dec_jpg/part_1/image/pdp9.jpg
At 04:56 PM 10/1/98 -0500, you wrote:
I just talked to somebody that has a PDP-9 that has
been in continuous use
(24 hours/day) since 1967! They're finally thinking about phasing it out.
So, I was thinking.... How big is a PDP-9?
-- Doug
1 Oct
1 Oct
7:15 p.m.
On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Chuck McManis wrote:
For people (like me) who didn't know about the nice collection of old
DEC machine pictures available at the DEC Japan site, take a look:
http://pc.dec-j.co.jp/support/may/dec_jpg/dec_jpg.htm
-- Doug
2 Oct
2 Oct
1:02 p.m.
Better get a small truck...
http://pc.dec-j.co.jp/support/may/dec_jpg/part_1/image/pdp9.jpg
>I just talked to somebody that has a PDP-9 that has been in continuous use
>(24 hours/day) since 1967! They're finally thinking about phasing it out.
>So, I was thinking.... How big is a PDP-9?
Actually in that picture, the PDP-9 is the 'silver' unit mounted directly
above the shelf on the far left of the cabinets. That's really all the
PDP-9 is. The rest of the other are drives and (looks like an oscilloscope)
unknown stuff.
By my faulty memory, the actual computer is about 2.5'W x 1'H x 2.5L.
Warning, they are HEAVY!
Arfon
1:26 p.m.
At 05:02 PM 10/2/98 -0500, you wrote:
Actually in that picture, the PDP-9 is the
'silver' unit mounted directly
above the shelf on the far left of the cabinets. That's really all the
PDP-9 is. The rest of the other are drives and (looks like an oscilloscope)
unknown stuff.
The oscilloscope is the 1K by 1k output display that is similar to the PDP-1
and TX-0 displays. But the point that the PDP-9 offered might not have off
the cabinets is well taken.
--Chuck
1:27 p.m.
On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Chuck McManis wrote:
The oscilloscope is the 1K by 1k output display that
is similar to the PDP-1
and TX-0 displays. But the point that the PDP-9 offered might not have off
the cabinets is well taken.
How did those displays work and what were they called? (DECScope?) I
assume the PDP-1 didn't have a memory-mapped display, so did it send
vector info to the display a la Tek 4010?
-- Doug
1:32 p.m.
New subject: Tony Cole and the Crays
He's selling his Cray bits on Haggle (at a slight discount). I actually
got one of the Cray-1 boards second-hand. They're pretty cool, and since
I got mine indirectly, I don't feel personally repsonsible for the Cray
that gave its life for the sake of art.
http://www.haggle.com/cgi/getitem.cgi?id=201777875
-- Doug
3 Oct
3 Oct
6 p.m.
New subject: Tony Cole and the Crays
Doug Yowza wrote:
He's selling his Cray bits on Haggle (at a slight discount). I actually
got one of the Cray-1 boards second-hand. They're pretty cool, and since
I got mine indirectly, I don't feel personally repsonsible for the Cray
that gave its life for the sake of art.
http://www.haggle.com/cgi/getitem.cgi?id=201777875
Well, that subject line sounds like a killer name for a rock group --
then again again I've mentioned before that I'm not in my first
childhood. Maybe not even my second -- I tend to drop too many bits.
Memory just isn't what it was. Too much LDS in the Sixties, I guess.
--
Ward Griffiths <mailto:gram@cnct.com> <http://www.cnct.com/home/gram/>
When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked me if I had any
firearms with me. I said "Well, what do you need?" -- Steven Wright
4 Oct
4 Oct
1:32 a.m.
New subject: Tony Cole and the Crays
On 3 Oct 98 at 23:00, Ward Donald Griffiths III wrote:
Doug Yowza wrote:
I was just looking thru a Tab book from 1988 on byo comps. and the author
mentions a Tony Cole as head of a mother board supplier the V.I.P.C. Company.
Wonder if it's the same guy before his Cray notoriety.
ciao larry
lwalker(a)interlog.com
He's selling his Cray bits on Haggle (at a slight discount). I actually
got one of the Cray-1 boards second-hand. They're pretty cool, and since
I got mine indirectly, I don't feel personally repsonsible for the Cray
that gave its life for the sake of art.
http://www.haggle.com/cgi/getitem.cgi?id=201777875
Well, that subject line sounds like a killer name for a rock group --
then again again I've mentioned before that I'm not in my first
childhood. Maybe not even my second -- I tend to drop too many bits.
Memory just isn't what it was. Too much LDS in the Sixties, I guess.
--
Ward Griffiths <mailto:gram@cnct.com> <http://www.cnct.com/home/gram/>
7:49 p.m.
New subject: Tony Cole and the Crays
On Sun, 4 Oct 1998, Lawrence Walker wrote:
I was just looking thru a Tab book from 1988 on byo
comps. and the author
mentions a Tony Cole as head of a mother board supplier the V.I.P.C. Company.
Wonder if it's the same guy before his Cray notoriety.
Certainly not.
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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5 Oct
5 Oct
8:24 a.m.
New subject: Tony Cole and the Crays
On Sun, 4 Oct 1998, Lawrence Walker wrote:
> I was just looking thru a Tab book from 1988 on byo comps. and the author
> mentions a Tony Cole as head of a mother board supplier the V.I.P.C. Company.
> Wonder if it's the same guy before his Cray notoriety.
On Sun, 4 Oct
1998, Sam Ismail wrote:
Certainly not.
Really?
I bought a VIPC generic clone from Tony Cole for a friend, long, long ago.
I had a Computer Faire booth across the aisle from him when he had built
a "super clone" with gold plated case that got him a LOT of free ink and
magazine cover pictures.
I remember the newsbit when he got his first Cray in an auction.
He recognized me, said hello, and told me about VCF at Foothill
(although there is no reason to assume that he would have remembered my
name).
Sure SEEMED like the same guy.
--
Fred Cisin cisin(a)xenosoft.com
XenoSoft http://www.xenosoft.com
2210 Sixth St. (510) 644-9366
Berkeley, CA 94710-2219
2 Oct
2 Oct
2:45 p.m.
Arfon Gryffydd <arfonrg(a)texas.net> wrote:
By my faulty memory, the actual computer is about
2.5'W x 1'H x 2.5L.
Warning, they are HEAVY!
Your memory is faulty. The computer occupies several 72" racks. You
must be thinking of a PDP-8/e or something.
Reference: Computer Engineering: a DEC View of Hardware System Design
5 Oct
5 Oct
7:03 a.m.
By my faulty
memory, the actual computer is about 2.5'W x 1'H x 2.5L.
Warning, they are HEAVY!
Your memory is faulty. The computer occupies several 72" racks. You
must be thinking of a PDP-8/e or something.
Reference: Computer Engineering: a DEC View of Hardware System Design
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