Eric: Thanks for starting this. I've been doing little updates to the SEL wikipedia pages recently, but a dedicated site would be great. I used the machines heavily from 1977-1995, most of the 32/X series, as well as the NP1. AFAIK, I was the first person to get C++ (cfront) working under UTX-32. Alas, I didn't save any literature from the period.
On Sun, Nov 8, 2020 at 4:34 PM Steve Malikoff via cctalk < [email protected]> wrote: > Al said > > On 11/6/20 12:11 PM, Tom Uban via cctalk wrote: > >> The ECL based logic was named "firebreather" for a reason. They were the > >> fastest thing at the time. > > > > If you look at the Gould advertising at the time, it was a picture of a > > fire-breathing dragon toasting a DEC salesman running away. > > The ad must have worked. Although our uni was the first in Australia to > provide 11/780's > for teaching and research, in later years third year comp sci was moved to > a new Gould > PN6080, because they got a good deal. Everyone just called it "the Gould". > > It's so hard to find a picture of this machine, a while ago I found an > eBay ad for the > PowerNode series which was about all I have. > > Steve. > >
