G'day Paul -
Indeed, Ampex sold Nova-compatible computers from around 1977.
Ampex also sold memory systems for certain Nova series, PDP11, 11/70,
DECsystem 10 and DECsystem 20, IBM, Unicac and Sigma 7 and 9(!). These
in addition to the disk drives, tape drives, controllers, fixed-head
disk
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A little addition is that after the sale to C, most of the SMS
employees were shifted to Televideo who bought the SMS board business.
--Chuck
Thanks for that, Tim. I was VP Ops of the Canadian Distributor for Data
Systems design, and we got a lot of fierce competition from SMS.
However, when non-patched drivers were called for, we won every time.
SMS did have some speed advantages by going their own way though!
I always wondered
On 12/5/23 16:59, Shoppa, Tim via cctalk wrote:
> SMS was based in Mountain View starting in the 70's. They sold DEC-compatible
> Q-bus storage systems in the early 80's and transitioned into IBM PC disk
> storage ASICs and boards under the OMTI brand in the late 80s.
>
SMS declared bankruptcy
SMS was based in Mountain View starting in the 70's. They sold DEC-compatible
Q-bus storage systems in the early 80's and transitioned into IBM PC disk
storage ASICs and boards under the OMTI brand in the late 80s.
What happened to them after that? Some CC'er in Silicon Valley must know :-)
On 12/3/23 15:44, Van Snyder via cctalk wrote:
I have a formerly-gorgeous 27-inch Samsung monitor:
Model LF27T350FHNXZA
Serial 0AS1HCNR904588L
S/W M-T3527FGGA-1006.1
that now has a minor defect. The "wallpaper" has a dim stripe about
1/6th of the screen width, top-to-bottom, about 1/6th from
I hava a technical manual from 1977 for the ARM-3 16kx16 Magnetic Core Memory.
It's designed for the DG NOVA3/4 and 3/10 minicomputers.
In the manual is mentioned a ARM-2 Memory.
Lothar
Not surprising given that they had a whole "division" devoted to memory
products. Core memory would have been reasonably close to their magnetic
tape-expertise. What is surprising is that they apparently sold a
DG-compatible Nova-class CPU. Something like the Digidyne "D.D. 112" (name
found
I can't at the moment, but I bet if one were to review a random assortment
of CompuerWorld newspapers or industry magazine from the 70's (not Byte or
a PC/retail) you'd see a lot of RAM vendor ads, Ampex included. I have at
least one Ampex core RAM board, I always thought they were among market
Around 1979 I was given a full-size Ampex 4k DG-compatible core memory
board to try and interface to a MC6800 development system that I was
building. IIRC I got it basically working but abandoned the project as
the price of DRAMs fell and could populate a 16k RAM board within my
budget. It was
Although I knew that Ampex was a supplier of Multibus non-volatile RAM
boards (MC-8080 and MCM-8086) - Memory Products Division - I didn't realize
that they had competed for a while in the DG-compatible market alongside
companies like Digidyne, Fairchild, Bytronix, and SCI Systems (according to
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