At 11:39 AM 6/5/98 -0700, Sam Ismail wrote:
>
>Since I'm sure not many of you have ever heard of Nicolet Instrument
>Corporation (Madison, Wisconsin), I'll tell you what I know so far. The
>NIC-1080 is a 20-bit computer circa 1972. It has an assembler and a BASIC
>via paper tape programs.
I've got a few friends who work at Nicolet, and it's just 30-40 minutes
from here. I visited a few months ago to pick up a dead Microvax and
Vaxstation. In the same junk room, I saw an old Nicolet computer, still
in use - although I don't remember the model number. There were racks
and racks of nine-track tapes, each containing spectra data from their
spectrographic analysis of thousands of substances. Most notable about
the Nicolet computers is the hard-wired Fourier routines that were only
recently out-paced by the 486/66.
- John
Jefferson Computer Museum <
http://www.threedee.com/jcm>
Received on Fri Jun 05 1998 - 14:08:23 BST