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To: catnipman

I don’t have bisync nor Bus-n-Tag — If I would have thought about I would have grabbed some in 1987 when I used both of those.

And can you imagine having the 110 BAUD acoustic coupler with the box to shut out external noise?

And to have a rack of 1 MB core memory.

I wish time travel was as easy as in Star Trek — I would just grab old time stuff! :)


16 posted on 04/01/2015 11:14:35 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (A proud 3 percenter! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3270985/posts)
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To: freedumb2003

“And to have a rack of 1 MB core memory.”

I have a 1970’s DEC PDP-11 H214 8Kx16 core board. Bought it for $50.00 about 10 years ago from a friend who had several.

It’s a really cool piece of computing history, what with the hand-threaded arrays of magnetic cores. Apparently only females had the patience and dexterity to do the threading. There’s an x, y and sense/inhibit wire threaded through each nearly-invisible magnetic donut cores.


23 posted on 04/01/2015 2:15:12 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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