TC08 in an FPGA

Al Kossow aek at bitsavers.org
Wed Nov 22 12:42:39 CST 2006


>> A TC08 on an omnibus card would be useful too.

> Nah, you just need yet more Posibus and Data Break cards for your
> Omnibus machines :-).

8E cabling is horrible. I helped maintain a large TSS/8 configuration
(RK8E,TC08,RF08,PC08, lots of 8655's in an expander box) and a similar OS/8
system w/o the expander box, and those heavy shielded BC08s made working on
the CPU a nightmare. As you are aware, there is neither cable strain relief
nor card guides in those machines. It wasn't uncommon to see an Omnibus card
bent 1/4" back because of the cable strain.









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