Demography?

From: Allison J Parent <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
Date: Sun Mar 1 15:00:00 1998

<I might as well get the ball rolling with an introduction of sorts.

Oh why not.

I'm older at 45 so, that means I have hands on time with new PDP-8Is and
KA/I/L-10s. I was in EEschool when the 8008 hit and I was already working
(to pay for school) with it soon after it was available at work. I've
done design with everything from DC to 1ghz RF analog and even a fair
amount of digital from transistors to asics. Likely one of the few that's
designed with tubes, transistors and ICs. Former companies I've worked
for Automated processes(maglink SMPTE timecodes), Tandy(trs80),
NEC(chips), Hazeltine(terminals), DEC(printing systems) and a few more
inbetween.

Far as I can tell one of the few active women in legacy(old machines are
us) computing. For me thse old system were the computer I couldn't afford
when I was playing with them new.

My collections includes:

4 operational s100 machines
  Vector MX (vector box computime boards)
  Northstar* horizon (actively used has HD)
  Explorer-85
  S-S100 (my design z80 supersystem) (active and archive system, big HD)
3 Vt180s (in use)
1 kaypro (in use)
1 Epson PX-8 with 120k wedge (my laptop)
1 amproLB+ with 45mb scsi drive (used often)
1 SB180 with SCSI adaptor and 20meg HD(also used frequently)
1 DECMATE-III runs OS/278

VAXEN: All operational ant netted via decnet/eithernet
1 MV-II ba23
1 MV-II ba123
3 VS2000 2 vms and one ultrix
1 Vaxstation3100-m76 VMS

PDP-11 systems: all operatonal
1 ba11n 11/23b (rx50)
1 ba11n 11/73 (rx33, rd52, RX02, RL02, TK50)
2 BA11va 11/23 (shoebox system with tu58 tape)
1 PDT11/130
1 Pro350 with venix

Misc SBCs: operational
IMSAI IMP-48 (8035 based SBC)
COSMAC ELF (base design)
national SC/MP Demo board
National TBX tinybasic chip on a board
Technico superstarter sytem (TI9900)
Misc 8085 boards used for random uses.
NEC TK-80 8080 system
DEC ADVICE microvax-II chip based sbc/ice
Intersil 6960 demo kit (pdp-8 cmos chip (6100) to make a minimal system)

Misc machines:
INTEL MDS-800 multibus 8080
TI99/4a with PEB, disk, mem exp, voice, disk software and 20+ carts.
Altair (retired)

PCs:
Leading Edge mod D (XT class) running dos
DTC turboXT slated for minix (running dos)
386dx/33 running linux
486dx2/50 running dos (this system)

My wish list includes:

more SBCs (mostly because they are fun and small)
PDP-8/e/f/m series (always wanted one since '69)
any pdp-10 ( I can wish!)
Intersil/harris 6100/6120 based systems


Allison
Received on Sun Mar 01 1998 - 15:00:00 GMT

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