On 6/26/2021 9:11 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
On 6/26/21 3:42 PM, Jules Richardson via cctalk wrote:
The panels at the tops of the racks all seem to say Adage. Perhaps the
blinkenlights panel is theirs, too?
The entire system is an Adage Graphics Terminal
There are some docs now up
Sad computer history note - Larry Breed, one of the original implementors of
Iverson Notation AKA A Programming Language AKA APL passed away last month.
Larry went to work at IBM on the first APL implementation on an IBM 7090 in
1965 as his first job out of Stanford. My path crossed Larry's not
Thanks this was interesting learning.
On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 9:41 AM Maciej W. Rozycki via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Jun 2021, Paul Koning wrote:
>
> > > However both serial and parallel ports remain reasonably available as
> > > PCIe option devices. Though parallel po
On Sun, 27 Jun 2021, Paul Koning wrote:
> > However both serial and parallel ports remain reasonably available as
> > PCIe option devices. Though parallel ports seem to be made as legacy PCIe
> > devices only, that is accessed with I/O rather than memory read/write bus
> > cycles, which are no
> On Jun 26, 2021, at 7:08 PM, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
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> On Fri, 25 Jun 2021, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
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>>> Well you can find mother boards with real COM port, but they are rare.
>>
>> One place you can find them easily is on industrial computers. My
>> firewall machine is one, be
