The desk mounting sounds like the PDPs as well. I didn't work with
them, but did see some in a DEC facility where I worked. They had bit
of a museum in the lobby, it was the "Benchmark Center", where customers
and partners were brought in to run benchmarks on their production
stuff. This place had a block of the original "Whirlwind" as well.
Last I knew (it's been a while) there were a bunch of PDPs still in use
doing device control, one was the control for opening and closing the
Cape Cod Canal drawbridge. Back when they started making VAX clusters,
they found a use for old PDP chips, storage controllers. The thing
called an HSC, Hierarchal Storage Controller, was a PDP11 on a card with
I/O cards for disks, tapes and Cluster Interconnect.
Some of that design has advantages over stuff we do today for shared
storage.
Kevin
Paul Jones wrote:
about pdp's
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-8
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-11
both fit your word sizes and the paper tape and my memory. check out the
pictures and write ups
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