Joe,
What's "behind" the "open.jpg" panel - have you opened it further to see the
internal boards, etc. This is an interesting find....
>From a manual: "The AN/UYK-20(V), is a general-
purpose processor designed to meet the requirements
of small and medium processor applications in
shipboard or shore military facilities. The processor is
used in the CUDIXS, NAVMACS, SSIXS (shore
installations), and TACINTEL subsystems."
Lyle
On Wednesday 19 May 2004 05:45, Joe R. wrote:
> I've added some more pictures to my website. The first ones are of one
> of the UYK-20 computers. These were made by Sperry Rand and are militry
> versions of the Univac and use core memory.
> <http://www.classiccmp.org/hp/UYK-20/>. The other pictures
> <http://www.classiccmp.org/hp/millennium/> are of the Millennium
> microproccessor tester that was discussed here a few weeks ago. I took
> these pictures in a hurry and they aren't real good, particularly the ones
> of the Millennium. It was in the back of a dark warehouse and the pictures
> show it. One item of interest on the Millennium is the pullout drawer on
> the side. It has the CPU and all of the CPU spcific items on it. In other
> words, you can change it from an 8080 system to a 6800 system by merely
> changeing that drawer. I have two of these and IIRC one is 6800 and the
> other is 8080 based.
>
> Joe
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Lyle Bickley
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