1GHz PDP-11 (Re: Prints for an 11/70)

From: Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com>
Date: Thu Dec 13 07:40:37 2001

> On December 12, Richard Erlacher wrote:
> > If it topped out at 7 MBps, it was probably because the bus handshake was
> > clocked with a CPU clock, in order to ensure the CPU would "see" the
> > transitions.
>
> I am reminded of my favorite piece of broken english, found in a
> Taiwanese PeeCee motherboard manual many years ago:
>
> "If use 387 coprocessor, the clocked by CPU clock."
>
> No, I made no typos there. :-)

I bought a CGA-compatible video cards a few years back
(80s), that had an incompatible hi-res mode in addition
to the CGA, and a mouse interface.

The manual kept referring to "the connector of the ten ways".
This sounded *SO* Zen that I was sure than once I had it
figured it, it'd be the secret to life.

Finally dawned on me that this was "10-pin connector".

-dq
Received on Thu Dec 13 2001 - 07:40:37 GMT