So what are you personaly going to do with 30' of rip roaring PDP-11/44
and diskdrives?
--Mitch
Buck Savage wrote:
>
> I suspect that you have several. Hence, what is currently in your
> repository?
>
> One interesting piece I have is a MicroWay 80860 board. It is
> generally described as a single chip Cray 1, and can in bursts
> (perhaps at greater rates) compute at 80MFLOPS on a 40MHz
> clock. As it happens, this processor is not quite fast enough but,
> with about 10 times the power, one could watch movies of flights
> about the Mandelbrot set in real time at about 1600 by 1280 pixels
> in 24 bit color.
>
> William R. Buckley
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Megan <mbg_at_world.std.com>
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
> <classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
> Date: Sunday, November 01, 1998 2:21 PM
> Subject: Re: PDP-11/44 boot prompt
>
> >
> >>For me, a personal computer is defined as any computer that I own and
> >>operate. If I could find a SYS/360 or SYS370, or Sigma/7 or Sigma/9 or
> >
> >That's exactly how I've viewed it as well. When I told people that
> >my personal computer was a pdp-11/93 or a uVax system, they generally
> >balked at the idea, though. I've had to remind them that it is a
> >computer (that's never in question), and that I own it and use it.
> >Hence a *personal* computer... And although I didn't have one back
> >when the Imsai became available, I did get my first one (an 11/10)
> >in 1980.
> >
> > Megan Gentry
> > Former RT-11 Developer
> >
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