> -----Original Message----- > From: cctalk <cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org> On Behalf Of Chuck Guzis via > cctalk > Sent: 15 June 2020 06:33 > To: dwight via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > Subject: Re: Unknown Intel blinkenlight panel circa 1973 > > On 6/14/20 8:41 PM, dwight via cctalk wrote: > > I can see why I was having problems. The picture was upside down. It > > looked like Spanish or something. Do remember that Intel's claim to > > fame wasn't just micro processor. They were one of the first to do MOS > > RAMs for big machines. They were more into solid state memory systems > > than uPs, until after the 8080. It clearly isn't for some > > 4004 or 8008. It was likely monitoring some RAM for some mini. > > Intel Memory Systems Division was largely responsible for saving Intel's > bacon in the early 1970s. The MPU business with the 8008 and 4004 wasn't a > moneymaker initially. > > However, selling DRAM assemblies for various minis (e.g. DG and DEC) as > well as S/370 add-on memory amounted to a large portion of their early > sales. IMSD was on the far end of Mathilda in Sunnyvale. >
I found this ad here:- https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=9Ih5WQ-muXEC&pg=PT1&lpg=PT1&dq=ibm/370+t hird+party+memory+intel I think if we could read the legends on the front we might get a better idea of what system it was for... ... looks like 18-bits so something in the pdp-10 line? Dave > Have a look at section 7 here: > > https://johncargin.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/intel-catalog-1973.pdf > > --Chuck > >