I have a sew thousand ECL chips I'd love to sell... On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 9:08 PM, Jon Elson via cctech <[email protected] > wrote:
> On 07/18/2018 03:15 PM, Johannes Thelen via cctech wrote: > >> Anyone familiar with these PCMs? I got a CMI 1640 and little help needed. >> Here's photos: https://drive.google.com/drive >> /folders/1w74AYe6lRSn9gJhyKVlBYAq5zRDWybSw?usp=sharing >> >> What this 370 clone is exactly? If I have understood right, Steven >> Ippolito's IPL Systems Inc developed the original machine and CMI >> (Cambridge Memories Inc) made them. Also these sold as Omega/480 and >> Olivetti 5300 series. Later CMI made their own versions and I believe this >> one of those. But I haven't found model 1640. So is this 1641..? What is >> difference between CMI and others? Microcode? >> >> I got belong with the machine a couple manuals, Maintenance and Theory of >> Operation. Unfortunately original microcode disk is missing (and 8" >> drive...), so that would be needed if I ever want to fire this thing up. >> Any ideas where I could find a one? >> >> >> Wow! solid state memory and ECL chips for the CPU! Going to be real > hard to find the missing items unless somebody who worked with them hid > them in their garage. Anyway, such a machine is pretty useless without a > bunch of peripherals. You'd need a disk control and drives and a comm > control to be able to do much of anything. > > Jon >
