On Fri, Nov 4, 2022 at 5:47 PM Jonathan Katz via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > Hi everyone! > > I'm curious; other than Wikipedia what do we know about Whitechapel > workstations? Do any of us have some working in our collections, with > software, disk dumps, etc?
I know somebody who pointed out that back in Victorian times, Whitechapel (an area of London) was known for opium dens. And that this must have influenced the design of said computers... More seriously I have a working (last time I turned it on) MG1 with monitor, keyboard, and mouse. Also have the technical notes manual and an installation disk kit. Another chap I know (I think he's here but I'll let him speak up) scanned the manual and coppied the disks last year, so there is a backup.This is a 32016-based machine of course. It has a bit-serial graphics processor (akin to the excellent parallel rasterop machine in the PERQ) that is slower than doing a bitmap update in software... I also have most of a Hitech 10 (MIPS R2000 box) that I know nothing about yet. All sorts of spare boards, including things like never-populated bare RAM boards for the Hitech,. -tony
