Hey, I did that on Sunday afternoons on the Star-100 with Lincoln and his son PD when I was in 8th grade. I never became a manager though :-)
Chris -- Chris Elmquist > On Apr 22, 2024, at 3:22 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote: > > On 4/22/24 13:02, Wayne S wrote: >> I read somewhere that the cable lengths were expressly engineered to provide >> that signals arrived to chips at nearly the same time so as to reduce chip >> “wait” times and provide more speed. > > That certainly was true for the 6600. My unit manager, fresh out of > UofMinn had his first job with CDC, measuring wire loops on the first > 6600 to which Seymour had attached tags that said "tune". > > But then, take a gander at a modern notherboard and the lengths (sic) to > which the designers have routed the traces so that timing works. > > --Chuck >
