Harris Mini's (was: WTD: 9 track open reel for PDP-11)

Zane Healy healyzh at avanthar.com
Fri Dec 28 15:33:39 CST 2018


I didn’t realize they were 48-bit, though I seem to remember them being 24-bit.  The system I used was more “logistics” and general purpose ADP.  I spent a *LOT* of time using the MUSE word processor.

Zane



> On Dec 28, 2018, at 1:19 PM, Bob Smith <bobsmithofd at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I almost remembered, had to look it up to confirm 81, the 48bit system
> they carried on when they bought the original company that had made
> them and the Vulcan OS. Not a bad scientific and instrumentation
> machine. What was the original company Datacraft or something?
> bob
> 
> On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 3:47 PM Zane Healy via cctalk
> <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> On Dec 27, 2018, at 11:30 AM, Kyle Owen via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I have a bunch of tapes from some Harris minicomputer that I'd like to
>>> digitize at some point. I finally got around to digitizing the paper tapes.
>>> 
>>> Thanks!
>>> 
>>> Kyle
>> 
>> Any clues on what?  In the late 80’s I used a Harris Mini.
>> 
>> It would be cool to see someone do an emulator for them.  Especially if copies of Zork and the Star Trek games exist (there was a Star Trek game that was different than the standard).
>> 
>> Zane
>> 
>> 
>> 



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