On Saturday 18 February 2006 00:22, Richard Smoot wrote:
>My display generators were all
> vacuum tube about 5 feet high 3 foot wide and 6 feet long and would
> project a 16 foot square color display or 4 separate images in the 16 foot
> square screen. It took about a minute to generate a new display. We had 4
> or 5 of thease for the SAC level command post. They really did generate a
> large wall of display. This was pre Unix. A 32 bit machine word coded in
> octal coded machine language.
> If someone wants to start a museum, I could probably dig up some of my
> training material on this beast.
And here I thought you would say you would dig up the computer... Guess that
explains why you are here in the Tampa area.
I started with an IBM card puncher but my first own machine was the IMSAI 8080
if recall the name correctly.
Then moved onto the Ohio Scientific Superboard II.
--Steve Szmidt
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