James Knott wrote: > Hans Witvliet wrote: > >> On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 12:59 -0500, James Knott wrote: >> >> >>> The Data General Eclipse line had a feature called "Writable Control >>> Store", which could be used to add custom instructions to the CPU. The >>> VAX 11/780 had it's microcode loaded from floppy at boot, but I don't >>> recall if it was changeable in the same manner as the Eclipse WCS. >>> >>> >>> >> Floppy? >> It was a real huge 8" flop ... (still have them here) >> >> hw >> >> > Yep. There was an LSI-11 (microprocessor version of PDP-11) hidden in > the cabinet, equipped with one or two 8", hard sectored drives. It was > also used to connect the console terminal. As I recall, the command to > use it as the VAX console was "STP" and Ctl-Z(?) to return to the LSI-11 > console. Back in it's day, the VAX was considered a "super mini", a > real hot system. But it only had the CPU power of a 386! > > BTW, that's where I first came across the "Adventure" game. :-
Several years ago I was given an Xerox floppy drive with a box of 8" floppies. Many "commercial" programs. Unfortunately I didn't get the computer that went with them. The lady that owned it had already given that to a school for challenged children to hammer on. *<[:o( -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
