I ran across an ad in the March 1979 Popular Electronics. It is for a small computer board called "MIMIC" from Real Time Intelligence Corporation of Rochester, NY. From the picture and small amount of information in the ad I am guessing it is a minimal 6802 processor system. I am interested in knowing more about it, but so far my searches have turned up nothing on the computer or the company. Does anyone know anything about it? Links to info? The magazine can be found here https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Popular-Electronics-Guide.htm and the ad is on page 6 (8 of the PDF.)
Thanks,
Will
You just can't beat the person who never gives up.
Babe Ruth
I have a ton of these covering the period from around 2000-2005. I may have
more. Are they of interest to anyone? They are in the UK. Would prefer local
collection, I could post them in the UK if needed. They are going to be
heavy, but if anyone *really* wants them then I might be prepared to ship
them internationally. Obviously shipping will be for the recipient to pay,
but the journals are free.
Thanks
Rob
This is a very poor machine transcription of a Zoom conversation I had with Charles about 5 years ago.
I went flying with him once a month.
00:15:04 Charles Simonyi
Yeah the yeah this uh this kind of third hand plane and then flying with him and.
00:15:15 Charles Simonyi
We were flying at night and we had a complete electrical failure.
00:15:21 Paul McJones
Oh, really.
00:15:22 Charles Simonyi
Yeah, in the San Jose airspace.
00:15:27 Charles Simonyi
And dum dum.
00:15:31 Charles Simonyi
There are actual procedures to come to.
00:15:37 Charles Simonyi
Do.
00:15:40 Charles Simonyi
You approach an airport with radio failure.
00:15:43 Charles Simonyi
He was supposed to fly by the You know lookout.
00:15:47 Charles Simonyi
Of course it was.
00:15:48 Charles Simonyi
It was completely beautiful weather, you know, zillion visibility and and you were supposed to fly by the.
00:15:57 Charles Simonyi
Uhm, he knew all the procedure.
00:16:00 Charles Simonyi
We fly by the the control tower and then they guide you down with this thing called the light gun.
00:16:07 Charles Simonyi
Which is a colored oh colored thing that actually you can see even in the movies.
00:16:13 Charles Simonyi
You can see it kind of hanging from the from the ceiling.
00:16:16 Charles Simonyi
There's this big flashlights, you know that you you can direct at planes and and and the weird thing is that that.
00:16:27 Charles Simonyi
I was learning to fly at the time, so I'm doing a little bit of knowledge and and the when you clear to land, it's a it's steady green.
00:16:38 Charles Simonyi
And flashing green means standby.
00:16:40 Charles Simonyi
OK, wait for the client and and we saw this.
00:16:45 Charles Simonyi
I saw flashing green.
00:16:47 Charles Simonyi
And I said, wait, wait, it's we are not clear.
00:16:50 Charles Simonyi
Yeah.
00:16:51 Charles Simonyi
And and how it said no, no, no.
00:16:53 Charles Simonyi
That's a steady light, except that they are not hitting us, right?
00:16:58 Charles Simonyi
Oh Oh yeah, yeah.
00:16:58 Charles Simonyi
Oh yeah.
00:16:58 Charles Simonyi
00:16:59 Charles Simonyi
So I've just realized and and he said just look very close to the source and you can see a little bit of of the beam and see that it's steady.
00:17:10 Paul McJones
OK.
00:17:10 Paul McJones
OK.
00:17:11 Charles Simonyi
And and I realized.
00:17:13 Charles Simonyi
I mean, I still remember how.
00:17:15 Charles Simonyi
You know, and then you would have to see this in a simulator or something.
00:17:19 Charles Simonyi
Otherwise you know if I had been alone, I would have never landed because they they can't take you straight.
00:17:26 Paul McJones
Yeah, yeah.
00:17:26 Charles Simonyi
And I was thinking about this silly, silly distinction.
00:17:31 Charles Simonyi
Because, operationally, it's it's very difficult to tell the difference, But anyway.
Hi all,
today it happened to me I got a lot of stuff - spares for my HP9100, which do have the status of almost unobtanium:
- three cathode ray tubes, just tested and working
- two complete board sets
- several core memory boards
Andreas
Just a shot in the dark, but does anyone here happen to have a collection
of Apollo documentation, specifically for the DSP80A/90? According to the
Apollo documentation index they would be:
Operating the DSP80A/DSP90 - number 004957
Unpacking and installing the DSP80A/DSP90 - number 004958
and Servicing the DSP80A/DSP90 - number 005806.
Unsurprisingly, between my collection and Bitsavers, I cant seem to find
anything on line anywhere. I'd be pleasantly surprised if i wasn't the
owner of the only remaining DSP90.
-Kurt
You can also run Multics in a simulator: https://dps8m.gitlab.io/dps8m
It's been a while since I've been actively involved in that project, but it ran nicely.
I realize MULTICS is from teletype era - so probably no old photographs
showing MULTICS output in that form.
But looks like MULTICS was actually in use for a couple decades, maybe some
photo of a CRT with aspects of MULTICS presentable?
Mostly trying to verify what the "list" command output looked like. But
it should have some way to list processes also.
-Steve
