More on mystery system

[Brent Hilpert]

On 2010 Jul 26, at 5:46 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
>
> Thanks, but no--not even close.  This beast is a 1979-era ATE system.
>

Some searching for fairchild test systems brought up this for the  
Fairchild Sentry system:

    
https://www.chiphistory.org/product_content/lm_fairchild_sentry 
-400_1970_intro.htm
    
https://www.chiphistory.org/landmarks/lm_Fairchild_sentry-400_1970/ 
ip_fairchild_sentry-400_1970.htm

May not be of much help for your search, but interesting otherwise just  
to see the processor used. Uses yet another one of those little-known  
processors from the late-60s/early-70s when everybody decided they had  
to make their own minicomputer - in this case the Fairchild FST-1 (or  
is it something else re-badged?).

Good photo of the blinkenlight front panel in the brochure (2nd link  
above).

Rather early for the specific system you are looking for, but it might  
be the origins of it. 24-bit processor. There are some code snippets  
there of Fairchild's "FACTOR" language ("Fairchild Algorithmic Compiler  
- Tester Oriented") that bear some similarity to the snippet you  
presented.