14 Aug
2015
14 Aug
'15
12:44 a.m.
I turned up some CPU info on it, which I uploaded to bitsavers/lockheed/sue
Dumps of the programmable parts on the CPU would be nice if anyone has one.
14 Aug
14 Aug
2:54 p.m.
On 2015-Aug-13, at 9:44 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
I turned up some CPU info on it, which I uploaded to
bitsavers/lockheed/sue
Dumps of the programmable parts on the CPU would be nice if anyone has one.
So this was interesting, another in the list of 60s/70s minis - hadn't heard of it
previously.
Are there any known customers/applications that used it?
Didn't think I've seen a blinken-light front panel with worse graphics design
however.
3:03 p.m.
On 8/14/2015 11:54 AM, Brent Hilpert wrote:
On 2015-Aug-13, at 9:44 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
A friend who worked on CT scanners mentioned that a lot of those systems
had the SUE, and more importantly, one had to retain the 14" cartridges
as medical data for 7 years. The VA had scanners with the SUE in them
when he was trying to get Artronics into that site.
I think there were some available, but most got grabbed up in the duty
of reading the above archives. Not sure of the dispositions of them
after that.
thanks
Jim
I turned up some CPU info on it, which I uploaded
to bitsavers/lockheed/sue
Dumps of the programmable parts on the CPU would be nice if anyone has one.
So this was interesting, another in the list of 60s/70s minis - hadn't heard of it
previously.
Are there any known customers/applications that used it?
Didn't think I've seen a blinken-light front panel with worse graphics design
however. 
3:33 p.m.
On Aug 14, 2015, at 2:54 PM, Brent Hilpert <hilpert
at cs.ubc.ca> wrote:
On 2015-Aug-13, at 9:44 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
I remember one sitting in a corner in the University of Illinois computer science
department, but I never saw it in use and never heard of what was done with it. Its claim
to fame was user microprogramming.
I turned up some CPU info on it, which I uploaded
to bitsavers/lockheed/sue
Dumps of the programmable parts on the CPU would be nice if anyone has one.
So this was interesting, another in the list of 60s/70s minis - hadn't heard of it
previously.
Are there any known customers/applications that used it? Didn't think I've seen a blinken-light front
panel with worse graphics design however.
I thought it?s pretty neat. Touch panel ? you press the bit position digit labels to
enter that bit.
paul
9:20 p.m.
The other mini I've gone down too deep a rathole on is the Pertec
Computer Corp XL40 (univac 1900) which was a third generation key-tape
system. Pertec bought Computer Machinery Corporation, who appears to
have made their own PDP-8 clone (Bob Rosenbloom has one)
http://www.dvq.com/oldcomp/photos2/1k/cmc3.jpg for the first generation,
then they used PDP-11's for the 1800, then microcoding
their own 16 bit computer for the XL/40. What I have been able to dig
up is under pertec/dataEntry. I'm still trying to figure out what the
instruction set actually was.
On 8/14/15 11:54 AM, Brent Hilpert wrote:
On 2015-Aug-13, at 9:44 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
I turned up some CPU info on it, which I uploaded
to bitsavers/lockheed/sue
Dumps of the programmable parts on the CPU would be nice if anyone has one.
So this was interesting, another in the list of 60s/70s minis - hadn't heard of it
previously.
Are there any known customers/applications that used it?
Didn't think I've seen a blinken-light front panel with worse graphics design
however.
9:35 p.m.
On 8/14/15 6:20 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
who
appears to have made their own PDP-8 clone (Bob Rosenbloom has one)
http://www.dvq.com/oldcomp/photos2/1k/cmc3.jpg
oops, it's actually a Digital Computer Controls DCC-112
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