BTW - there is no evidence that the 1601 was not produced at all, is there? The brochure came from a local office near where I used to live in New Jersey USA. It could be that very few were made, what I need to do is cross reference with other sources I may have. b
On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 12:16 PM erik--- via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > Hi Bill! > > --- Bill Degnan <billdeg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I may have more 1601 stuff, if I find I will scan and post > > Many thanks for your efforts - these documents look very interesting. > Given the fact, that Rolm was founded in 1969, I really guess that by > the time the brochure was printed, no running hardware existed at all. > Maybe they had first PCBs and an idea how to implement the Nova > architecture using the MIL SPEC chips available. So the 1601 probably > only exists on paper! > > > . I know there is the upcoming Nova event so I > > As Will mentioned, this was 10 days ago. It was really a cool > event with lot of interesting people and their reminiscences and > memories from the good old days where very exciting! I had some > slides on the impact of the Nova architecture on military com- > puting, but the 1601 of course was missing in my time-line... > > Have a good time and best wishes, > > Erik. > > >
