Oops, I just remembered. It could not have been a Nova 3 because they
were 16 bit computers.
Or it could have been a Data General Nova 3. The control panel on
these were white. The control panel that showed the lights for the
registers and words were yellow. The flipper paddle switches were yellow.
There were two versions. The Nova 3 with a 16 slot mainframe and the
Nova 3 Jr with 3 or 5 slot mainframe.
Of course the cards were about 18"x18". Power supply on the bottom,
CPU card above it a FPU card or memory card (1 or 2 cards) and lastly
a controller card..
Access to the interface was from in line pins connected to a Dasher
terminal on the back plane. Connection to peripherals were through a
100 pin (S100) slot card wire wrapped to the pins on the back of the
mainframe.
The older version the Nova 2 had a blue control panel. The flipper
switches were regular (metal) toggle switches. Of cour
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 09:00:36AM -0500, J.C. Jones wrote:
>
> One of my first computers that I use in my work was a mini-computer, 12
> bit words, and magnetic core memory. It used punch paper tape. It was
> part of a broadcast automation system. I never did know the
> manufacturer's name for the computer.
Although 12-bit words was not unique, this could easily have been a DEC
PDP-8. What sort of date was this?
Brian
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