Aaron Kulkis wrote:
> Billie Walsh wrote:
>> 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(
>
> as in, with large blunt pieces of metal on wooden sticks?
>
>
>
Very possibly.
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