Nicolet 1080 rescued

From: Phil Guerney <guerney_at_uq.net.au>
Date: Sat Jun 6 08:26:58 1998

A Nicolet computer (maybe the same model) was one of the first computers I
ever used, and most certainly the smallest up until then. It was attached to
a Bruker NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance) instrument at the University of
Sydney when I used it as a research student from about 1975 or 76. It did
real time fast fourier transforms and interfaced directly to the Bruker
instrument. I think I remember people using it for other computing (maybe
with BASIC loaded) when they could get some time on it.

For a while, all it had was a teletype and paper tape punch/reader and that
was my first experience in the use of front panel switches to load a
bootstrap paper tape loader and then through the sequence of punched tapes
until the final program was loaded. Of course you never turned it off if you
could help it. Later it acquired a twin magnetic tape unit but I had
finished my graduate research then and never experienced that luxury.

Phil Guerney
Brisbane Australia
guerney_at_uq.net.au


-----Original Message-----
From: Sam Ismail <dastar_at_wco.com>
Date: Saturday, June 06, 1998 4:43 AM
Subject: Nicolet 1080 rescued


>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.
Received on Sat Jun 06 1998 - 08:26:58 BST