BART and PDP8's? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

31 Jul 1998

Don't know about that, but when I worked in Silicon Valley for a well known
microprocessor manufacturer, one of our pieces of state of the art
lithography equipment was controlled by micro pdp-11s.  We had to put them
on their own ethernet segment because the regular segments were so busy the
PDP ethernet cards would interupt the machines to death. :)
-----Original Message-----
From: Seth J. Morabito &lt;sethm(a)loomcom.com&gt;
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
&lt;classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu&gt;
Date: Friday, July 31, 1998 8:47 PM
Subject: BART and PDP8's?

...
 Hey folks,

A few years ago, I heard a rumor bandied about somewhere on Usenet that
BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit, a rail system running around some of the
San Francisco Bay) was, even to this day, controlled by pdp8/e systems.

Can anyone lend any credibility to this rumor?  Any chance of scoring
some PDP8 equipment if they decide to upgrade their system sometime soon?

-Seth
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