Foxboro systems/ was Re: PDP-11 Operating Systems

[Brent Hilpert]

On 2011 Mar 11, at 5:40 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
> On 3/11/11 5:34 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
>
>> Dead end. It was picked up from the remnants of a Sylvania computer 
>> project.
>>
>> http://www.freelists.org/post/foxboro/foxboro-Legacy-Fox-300-Systems,2
>
> from reading the post, I was mistaken. It seems to have lived on for 
> quite a long
> time

Interesting origins of the processor. I wonder what he means by 
'cardboard' circuit boards though, and discrete components. A photo in 
the Fox-1 brochure shows PCBs with edge connectors and gold-cap ceramic 
package SSI ICs.