Burroughs B1900 for sale in North Carolina

Al Kossow aek at bitsavers.org
Tue Apr 14 13:33:11 CDT 2015


On 4/14/15 11:26 AM, Al Kossow wrote:
> On 4/14/15 2:07 AM, Nigel Williams wrote:
>> I hope someone is able to rescue this system, if you're curious a
>> brief overview is here:
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>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burroughs_B1700
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>> A really unusual and interesting system, particularly the loadable
>> microcode for new instruction sets. This is quite definitely a R at R3
>> L@@K super-rare unusual system (to overwork an eBay meme).
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> If someone gets this, I have lots of spares which probably aren't going to be
> around past this summer.
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> There are a couple of obvious things missing, like the cold-start cassette and
> any disk drives.
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dumps of the tapes would be a good thing, but is is going to be difficult to recover them
given their physical condition




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