HP 3000 No More (legacy)

From: Allison <ajp166_at_bellatlantic.net>
Date: Tue Nov 20 07:32:33 2001

Noteably the Bridgeport company consumed some 100,000 LSI-11
card sets for their NC systems. Later I think Falcon(T11) cards
were also used and I've seena fair number of PDP-8s mated to the
larger vertical mills. Thats not even close to exhaustive list. Other
cpus (HP, Cincinatti Millichron, Z80 based, 6800 and 6502 as well).

Allison

-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Koller <vze2mnvr_at_verizon.net>
To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Date: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 4:46 AM
Subject: Re: HP 3000 No More (legacy)


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>ajp166 wrote:
>> For those CNC tools with PDP-8 or PDP11s running them
>
>What mfg. model CNC machines run on PDP's?
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>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
>
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