At 05:16 AM 1/20/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 09:51:20AM -0600, Tom Uban wrote:
> >
> > > > http://www.ubanproductions.com/imlac.html
> > > > http://www.ubanproductions.com/imlac_sw.html
>
>Nice pix, especially http://www.ubanproductions.com/Images/imlac11.jpg
>
>It bears a striking resemblance to the core stack in an PDP-8/L or
>PDP-8/i (those, of course, are either 4096x12 or 4096x13, depending on
>parity. Even the fingers look like DEC spacing.
>
>I am unfamiliar with the Imlac line... why would there be such
>similarities? Dataram already have something handy?
I'd guess because they could get the core module more cheaply if they
used something at least semi-standard. Also, Imlacs were designed and
built in Waltham MA, probably be ex-Dec people...
--tom
Received on Thu Jan 20 2005 - 11:03:43 GMT
