BART and PDP8's?

From: Jim Strickland <jim_at_calico.litterbox.com>
Date: Sat Aug 1 03:29:51 1998

Don't know about that, but when I worked in Silicon Valley for a well known
microprocessor manufacturer, one of our pieces of state of the art
lithography equipment was controlled by micro pdp-11s. We had to put them
on their own ethernet segment because the regular segments were so busy the
PDP ethernet cards would interupt the machines to death. :)
-----Original Message-----
From: Seth J. Morabito <sethm_at_loomcom.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Friday, July 31, 1998 8:47 PM
Subject: BART and PDP8's?


>Hey folks,
>
>A few years ago, I heard a rumor bandied about somewhere on Usenet that
>BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit, a rail system running around some of the
>San Francisco Bay) was, even to this day, controlled by pdp8/e systems.
>
>Can anyone lend any credibility to this rumor? Any chance of scoring
>some PDP8 equipment if they decide to upgrade their system sometime soon?
>
>-Seth
>--
>"It looks just like a Telefunken U47! Seth J. Morabito
> You'll love it." - Frank Zappa sethm_at_loomcom.com
>
Received on Sat Aug 01 1998 - 03:29:51 BST

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