HP 3000 No More (legacy)

From: Ian Koller <vze2mnvr_at_verizon.net>
Date: Tue Nov 20 03:21:35 2001

ajp166 wrote:
> For those CNC tools with PDP-8 or PDP11s running them

What mfg. model CNC machines run on PDP's?



ajp166 wrote:
>
> From: Dave McGuire <mcguire_at_neurotica.com>
>
> >On November 17, Stan Sieler wrote:
> >> PA-RISC is dead/dying ... HP has said so. IA-64 killed it.
> >
> > [knee-jerk reaction to a pet peeve follows]
> >
> > Well, as long as "dead" can be defined as "salespeople don't want to
> >sell you a new one". For me, it can't. I can pick up the phone and
> >buy PDP8 equipment from a commercial vendor. How long ago was THAT
> >architecture discontinued?
> >
> > For me, something is "dead" (or "obsolete" or whatever you want to
> >call it) when it can no longer do its job adequately and
>
> Dead to me is broken. Obsolete is when it cant forfill the intesded task
> or when it has reached a level of repair difficulty where replacement is
> an option. For those CNC tools with PDP-8 or PDP11s running them
> that number is still over $50,000 to upgrade and 100s of thousands of
> dollars to replace. In the face of that the PDP-8 that still makes good
> flanges is cheap at $2000 for a working cold spare.
>
> For example I was given three working 386(mono) and 486(color) laptops
> as too weak to be useful. Fully working machines with Xircom network
> adaptors and all!
>
> Allison
Received on Tue Nov 20 2001 - 03:21:35 GMT