On 4/24/20 6:58 PM, Nigel Johnson via cctalk wrote: > Does anybody have a wp made by AES? > > In the late 70's, they were experimenting with voice recognition for > their systems. We were a nearby DEC Components OEM and had a hundred or > so LSI11/23 modules in stock. They sent an engineer over to our plant, > took out the whole stock, and replaced the 13.824 MHz clock crystal > module with the output of a function generator to see how high they > could overclock it to get the response they needed for voice > recognition. I think they bought the 4 or 5 that passed diagnostics with > the highest clock speed, somewhere near 40 MHz IIRC. >
Some years ago, I received a Harris/AES hard-sector 8" floppy from a friend of a newspaper reporter. Took me forever to decode the format, after which I wasn't able to locate the customer. I do recall that those systems were quite popular in the newspaper trade, however. Here's a video documentary from CBC relating the sad story of that Canadian tech outfit. https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1890827641 --Chuck
