Re: Systems Engineering Laboratories - SEL History

2020-11-20 Thread Tony Aiuto via cctalk
Cool. Same shade of blue. On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 12:10 PM Eric Moore wrote: > Oh wow! This is incredible to see, thank you! > > > http://vtda.org/docs/computing/SEL/SEL810ProgrammersReferenceCard(810A-810B)_1Mar69.pdf > > Here is the equivalent 810A document I scanned. > > -Eric > > On Fri,

Re: Systems Engineering Laboratories - SEL History

2020-11-20 Thread Eric Moore via cctalk
Oh wow! This is incredible to see, thank you! http://vtda.org/docs/computing/SEL/SEL810ProgrammersReferenceCard(810A-810B)_1Mar69.pdf Here is the equivalent 810A document I scanned. -Eric On Fri, Nov 20, 2020, 10:46 Tony Aiuto wrote: > I found some MPX -32 items this week. Rough scans here:

Re: Systems Engineering Laboratories - SEL History

2020-11-20 Thread Tony Aiuto via cctalk
I found some MPX -32 items this week. Rough scans here: https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipOBnMkRJvzAsOCloK4NBQM9iDoROPk-QPXBANxNg2yjsJhWlEj9Z0TN50wYKgwJkA?key=YjNyYndsLXhKZ2VYTHM3b21yNDFYNkFHa3NYbDFn I want to redo them to send to bitsavers. On Sun, Nov 8, 2020 at 10:51 PM Eric Moore

Re: Systems Engineering Laboratories - SEL History

2020-11-08 Thread Eric Moore via cctalk
You are welcome! I have had a blast restoring and running my SEL 810A and wanted to pull together some of what I had found, done, and helped with. It is really just a placeholder for now until there is a critical mass of interest. The SEL 810 emulators are really awesome. Kgober's can run SEL

Re: Systems Engineering Laboratories - SEL History

2020-11-08 Thread Tony Aiuto via cctalk
Eric: Thanks for starting this. I've been doing little updates to the SEL wikipedia pages recently, but a dedicated site would be great. I used the machines heavily from 1977-1995, most of the 32/X series, as well as the NP1. AFAIK, I was the first person to get C++ (cfront) working under

Re: Systems Engineering Laboratories - SEL History

2020-11-08 Thread Steve Malikoff via cctalk
Al said > On 11/6/20 12:11 PM, Tom Uban via cctalk wrote: >> The ECL based logic was named "firebreather" for a reason. They were the >> fastest thing at the time. > > If you look at the Gould advertising at the time, it was a picture of a > fire-breathing dragon toasting a DEC salesman running

Re: Systems Engineering Laboratories - SEL History

2020-11-08 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 11/6/20 12:11 PM, Tom Uban via cctalk wrote: The ECL based logic was named "firebreather" for a reason. They were the fastest thing at the time. If you look at the Gould advertising at the time, it was a picture of a fire-breathing dragon toasting a DEC salesman running away.

Re: Systems Engineering Laboratories - SEL History

2020-11-08 Thread Tom Uban via cctalk
I worked at Gould CSD in Urbana on the Powernode Unix kernel from '86-'88 and knew the machines were descendants of SEL machines, but that is about it. The ECL based logic was named "firebreather" for a reason. They were the fastest thing at the time. Being a computer company in Urbana Illinois,

Re: Systems Engineering Laboratories - SEL History

2020-11-06 Thread Bob Smith via cctalk
My memories of SEL beginnings are dusty. and rusty. I recall a bunch of their systems being used in science related efforts, beecause of the high IO capability. At the time, for NASA and others, it was the ideal platform for data collection. Not a bad compute capability - many other systems in

Systems Engineering Laboratories - SEL History

2020-11-05 Thread Eric Moore via cctalk
Hello, I have pulled together a website with links to resources and information on SEL, or Systems Engineering Laboratories. http://mnembler.com SEL was a computer manufacturer in the 60s and 70s which later was acquired by Gould and then Encore. They made many major innovations and were