Notes on HP3000 WCS Microcode, Series 37 on ebay in Germany

Al Kossow aek at bitsavers.org
Wed Sep 16 08:03:51 CDT 2020


On 9/16/20 5:30 AM, Rodney Brown via cctalk wrote:

> It's possible that one of the SYSWCS64 files may match the assembly listing on bitsavers, but that listing could allow guessing the 
> architecture, assuming horizontal microcode and matching against the HP 3000 stack machine instruction set it implements.
> 

I suspect the listing is for this machine
https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102691253

I remember looking at the microcode boards in it at one point, and it had APL roms
Attempting to dump them isn't possible right now.

Was Lee Courtney involved with the APL 3000 project?




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