Re: Mystery 1970 core board

2020-03-06 Thread Bob Smith via cctalk
Don't forget Pluribus used the same boards. I think most of those were finally scrapped in the late 90s. They had been repurposed after I think it was Citibank dumped a lot of them. bb On Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 9:28 AM Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > > On 3/6/20 4:42 AM, Jules Richardson via cctalk

Re: Mystery 1970 core board

2020-03-06 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 3/6/20 4:42 AM, Jules Richardson via cctalk wrote: Thanks, Al! Definitely it. Hopefully I'll make it back to the site at some point and see if there are more related boards, although I think everything that was left had been "decommissioned" and had the card edges snipped off (which is the

Re: Mystery 1970 core board

2020-03-06 Thread Jules Richardson via cctalk
On 3/4/20 1:15 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: found it in this MAC-16 ad https://adspast.com/store/customer/product.php?productid=62927 Thanks, Al! Definitely it. Hopefully I'll make it back to the site at some point and see if there are more related boards, although I think everything

Re: Mystery 1970 core board

2020-03-04 Thread Jon Elson via cctalk
On 03/04/2020 10:32 AM, Bob Smith via cctalk wrote: The Unibus was patented. Don't lmpw jpw ,icj pf the WCS/,ocrpcpdomg SIE jad avao;ab;e/ I do not have the ISA in my head or handy, been more than 30 years since I touched a Pluribus, BBN version of the SUE. A quick scan of the MAC-16 / SUE

Re: Mystery 1970 core board

2020-03-04 Thread s shumaker via cctalk
On 3/3/2020 4:18 PM, Jules Richardson via cctalk wrote: Hopefully collective wisdom can help on this one - does anyone have a clue what system this core board was from: http://www.classiccmp.org/acornia/tmp/coresmall.jpg The curved edge connectors (presumably to make board insertion

Re: Mystery 1970 core board

2020-03-04 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 3/4/20 12:40 PM, dwight via cctalk wrote: > It is interesting, the way the edge connector is curved. I wish I'd seen this > done on more boards. it was common in Burroughs systems

Re: Mystery 1970 core board

2020-03-04 Thread dwight via cctalk
Bensene via cctalk Sent: Wednesday, March 4, 2020 12:31 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: RE: Mystery 1970 core board Al Kossow wrote Re: Mystery 1970 core board: >found it in this MAC-16 ad >https://adspast.com/store/customer/product.php?productid=62927 The

RE: Mystery 1970 core board

2020-03-04 Thread Rick Bensene via cctalk
Al Kossow wrote Re: Mystery 1970 core board: >found it in this MAC-16 ad >https://adspast.com/store/customer/product.php?productid=62927 The MAC-16 in this ad looks odd. The front panel has nothing behind it...or at least, very little. I'm not familiar with the MAC-16, but either the

Re: Mystery 1970 core board

2020-03-04 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
found it in this MAC-16 ad https://adspast.com/store/customer/product.php?productid=62927 On 3/3/20 4:18 PM, Jules Richardson via cctalk wrote: > > > Hopefully collective wisdom can help on this one - does anyone have a clue > what system this core board was from: >

Re: Mystery 1970 core board

2020-03-04 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
if it's LEC, it may be for a MAC-16 the form factor of the SUE boards is quite different (single edge connector) docs under http://bitsavers.org/pdf/lockheed On 3/4/20 8:32 AM, Bob Smith via cctalk wrote: > The Unibus was patented. Don't lmpw jpw ,icj pf the WCS/,ocrpcpdomg > SIE jad

Re: Mystery 1970 core board

2020-03-04 Thread Bob Smith via cctalk
The Unibus was patented. Don't lmpw jpw ,icj pf the WCS/,ocrpcpdomg SIE jad avao;ab;e/ I do not have the ISA in my head or handy, been more than 30 years since I touched a Pluribus, BBN version of the SUE. //bob On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 11:27 AM Mark Linimon wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 04, 2020 at

Re: Mystery 1970 core board

2020-03-04 Thread Mark Linimon via cctalk
On Wed, Mar 04, 2020 at 11:25:20AM -0500, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: > That's interesting. I remember seeing a SUE at the university, but > that was not a PDP-11 clone at all. The one at Rice University circa 1978 also had 6? 8? processors in the cabinet. mcl

Re: Mystery 1970 core board

2020-03-04 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Mar 4, 2020, at 10:46 AM, Bob Smith via cctalk > wrote: > > LEC16 was a copy of the PDP11. Lockheed sold it to BBN. BBN relabeled > it Pluribus. > I was part of the DEC engineering team looking at purchasing the LEC, > as one of the features was the ability to be an Arpanet IMP. > I was

Re: Mystery 1970 core board

2020-03-04 Thread Bob Smith via cctalk
LEC16 was a copy of the PDP11. Lockheed sold it to BBN. BBN relabeled it Pluribus. I was part of the DEC engineering team looking at purchasing the LEC, as one of the features was the ability to be an Arpanet IMP. I was quite familiar with t the Unibus, and noticed the print set was very similar

Re: Mystery 1970 core board

2020-03-04 Thread Jules Richardson via cctalk
On 3/3/20 6:18 PM, Jules Richardson via cctalk wrote: Hopefully collective wisdom can help on this one - does anyone have a clue what system this core board was from I think I may have figured it out. Back when I picked these up (I have another one, too) they were in a pile of boards from

Re: Mystery 1970 core board

2020-03-04 Thread Jules Richardson via cctalk
On 3/3/20 9:32 PM, Brent Hilpert via cctalk wrote: It looks to be 16 bits wide rather than 8, I think you'll find there's another 8 bit-arrays of cores on the underside of the planar-array daughter board. You may well be right; I can't quite tell for sure as there's not much clearance between

Re: Mystery 1970 core board

2020-03-03 Thread Brent Hilpert via cctalk
On 2020-Mar-03, at 4:18 PM, Jules Richardson via cctalk wrote: > Hopefully collective wisdom can help on this one - does anyone have a clue > what system this core board was from: > http://www.classiccmp.org/acornia/tmp/coresmall.jpg > > The curved edge connectors (presumably to make board