New subject: Zen and the art of computer collecting (was SuperFast PDP11)

13 Dec 2001

...
  On December 12, Richard Erlacher wrote:
  If it topped out at 7 MBps, it was probably
because the bus handshake was
 clocked with a CPU clock, in order to ensure the CPU would "see" the
 transitions.  
   I am reminded of my favorite piece of broken english, found in a
 Taiwanese PeeCee motherboard manual many years ago:

   "If use 387 coprocessor, the clocked by CPU clock."

   No, I made no typos there. :-) 
I bought a CGA-compatible video cards a few years back
(80s), that had an incompatible hi-res mode in addition
to the CGA, and a mouse interface.

The manual kept referring to "the connector of the ten ways".
This sounded *SO* Zen that I was sure than once I had it
figured it, it'd be the secret to life.

Finally dawned on me that this was "10-pin connector".

-dq

1GHz PDP-11 (Re: Prints for an 11/70)