It wasn't just the photo's that made me suspicious, the way it was written had a "strange" feel to it. Zane

Anyone know what happened to Oregon Software.... or where to find Pascal/2 for RSTS/E. I want it for my PDP emulator... because it is the language I learned to program with. None of that String bollox, real men use Array[1.80] of Char;

Heya, On 10/13/06, woodelf <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca> wrote: What ever happened to 24 bit words, or is this an easy case? Simon -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Well, an engineer is not concerned with the truth; that is left to philosophers and theologians: the prime concern of an engineer is the utility of the final product." Lectures on the Electrical Properties of Materials, L.Solymar, D.Walsh

Hey All, On 10/13/06, woodelf <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca> wrote: Or 4 x 6 bit characters. Certain parts of RTS/VOS on a Harris H1200 used a truncated ACSII to fit 4 characters into a word. Ahh. The only reason I know anything about the H1200 is that I worked on one. As far as I know, it is still in production use! Simon -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Well, an engineer is not concerned with the truth; that is left to philosophers and theologians: the prime concern of an engineer is the utility of the final product." Lectures on the Electrical Properties of Materials, L.Solymar, D.Walsh

Chuck Guzis wrote: So how many people have a working 24 bit computer on *this* list at home or in storage? I may end up building a 24/12 bit design ( the PCB layout and hardware design is my problem ) but designing a schematic is not.

Dave McGuire wrote: Well for now it is mostly sketched out on Quad Paper. It is a 12/24 bit CPU that is similar to the 6809 but only can be clocked to 5 Mhz. It is classic in that is about 1960's to 1970's time frame in that it does not have flags rather branches on testing of the AC. It just has single carry flag. I can get you the opcode and other stuff in a few days as dig out my papers. A mother board, 2 Alu cards, 1 control card 1 I/O card ( 6800 I/O ), 1 memory card ( 1 meg - static ) 1 front panel card & leds.

Rumor has it that Mark Firestone may have mentioned these words: Real men use (at least in 6809 - insert your favorite CPU here): str80 RMB 80 ; here's my string and actually knows what to do with it... ;-) Laterz, Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- SysAdmin, Iceberg Computers zmerch at 30below.com Hi! I am a .signature virus. Copy me into your .signature to join in!

Hi, Oregon Software went under in the late '80s (1988 IIRC). The decline of the DEC business, their absence in the PC market, and the rise of free GNU toolchains were all contributing factors. They did try to catch the C++ wave (their "Oregon C++" was well regarded) but it was too little, too late. Cheers, jp

William Maddox wrote: Too bad. I spoke with Billy Pettit about it, and he says there was both a Univac 1101, and a Univac 1 available in Atlanta at one point for the taking and there was a three way "you take it, no you take it" finger point situation between University of Mississippi, Lockheed and some other school when it was decomissioned. He says he actually got the documentation from such a system when it went begging. So there was more than just smoke to a story of a Univac in Atlanta. Oh well, one cant let things go unexplored. We have at least two improbable finds from such listings, and getting there with the means to move sometimes is the difference between scrapheap and not. Jim