Always fun to see some of the flameouts that came from css. Sha tin always pops to mind.
Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 16, 2024, at 9:39 AM, Paul Koning via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote: > > > >>> On Apr 16, 2024, at 10:15 AM, William Donzelli via cctalk >>> <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: >>> >>> I'll bet the source was talking about large contemporary storage units that >>> looked like drums or may have been called "drums" but were not actual 50's >>> drum memory with tubes and such. There was no rotating drum storage, the >>> media rotates in the PDP era. >>> >>> Take a look at any pdp 11 peripheral handbook, there would be drum memory >>> there if it was an official product. >> >> Key words being "official product". >> >> Digital CSS department - Computer Special Systems, where all that >> weird stuff that was DEC engineered and built came from. Call it "low >> run semi custom". > > For that matter, there are a lot of DEC products not seen in any Handbook. > If you want to see everything that was produced by DEC, check the > Option/Module list. > > To pick an example, the typesetting products were certainly official DEC > products, not CSS, though admittedly low volume. But you won't find the > PA611, or the VT61/t, or the VT71 or VT20, in any peripheral or other > "handbook". > > paul >
