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From: Charlie Gibbs on 8 Feb 2010 20:05 In article <1bd40ftplw.fsf(a)snowball.wb.pfeifferfamily.net>, pfeiffer(a)cs.nmsu.edu (Joe Pfeiffer) writes: > Al Kossow <aek(a)bitsavers.org> writes: > >> Reviving early computing dinosaurs from the surviving DNA is >> difficult. > > That's a line that deserves to be put above the entrance to a > computer museum. "It's a Unix system! I know this!" -- Jurassic Park -- /~\ cgibbs(a)kltpzyxm.invalid (Charlie Gibbs) \ / I'm really at ac.dekanfrus if you read it the right way. X Top-posted messages will probably be ignored. See RFC1855. / \ HTML will DEFINITELY be ignored. Join the ASCII ribbon campaign!
From: Mensanator on 8 Feb 2010 20:19 On Feb 8, 7:05 pm, "Charlie Gibbs" <cgi...(a)kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote: > In article <1bd40ftplw....(a)snowball.wb.pfeifferfamily.net>, > > pfeif...(a)cs.nmsu.edu (Joe Pfeiffer) writes: > > Al Kossow <a...(a)bitsavers.org> writes: > > >> Reviving early computing dinosaurs from the surviving DNA is > >> difficult. > > > That's a line that deserves to be put above the entrance to a > > computer museum. > > "It's a Unix system! I know this!" -- Jurassic Park Are you thinking what I'm thinking? Ancient processors evolving into more terrifying CPUs? Perhaps some things man wasn't meant to tamper with. > > -- > /~\ cgi...(a)kltpzyxm.invalid (Charlie Gibbs) > \ / I'm really at ac.dekanfrus if you read it the right way. > X Top-posted messages will probably be ignored. See RFC1855. > / \ HTML will DEFINITELY be ignored. Join the ASCII ribbon campaign!
From: Rob Doyle on 8 Feb 2010 22:21 On 2/6/2010 12:10 PM, glen herrmannsfeldt wrote: > In comp.arch.fpga Anne& Lynn Wheeler<lynn(a)garlic.com> wrote: > (snip) > >> in the early 80s los gatos did custom hardware for chip logic simulation >> (LSM ... "losgatos state machine" ... then "logic simulation machine" >> for publication) ... dozen plus rack boxes ... ran 50,000 times faster >> faster than logic simulation in software on 3033 > > I remember when I first started working with computers I had a > book from our library about ECAP, IBM's Electronic Circuit > Analysis Program. I never saw or used the actual program, > and haven't heard about it since. I wonder where it went... > > -- glen I used ECAP at Penn State in the late 70's. By then, Berkley SPICE was looking like the better tool. Rob.
From: oksid on 9 Feb 2010 02:27 Jecel wrote: > I try to keep a reasonably updated list of such projects at > > http://www.merlintec.com:8080/hardware/31 The commodore 64 clone "C-one" which is in your list is interesting. It has been implemented in an ASIC and has been sold as a commercial product. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C64_Direct-to-TV
From: Philipp Hachtmann on 9 Feb 2010 10:23
Eric Chomko wrote: > Has anyone created a copy machine of an old system using an FPGA? I Yes, pdp8 :-) But no front panel yet. Just a CPU with BRAM memory and teletype. Passed the CPU maindecs. -- --- http://pdp8.hachti.de |