In case you missed it, Zilog has issued a Last Buy notification for the Z80:
https://www.mouser.com/PCN/Littelfuse_PCN_Z84C00.pdf
Looks like Mouser and Digikey still have decent inventory of them.
On Thu, Apr 7, 2022 at 9:41 AM Jim Brain via cctalk
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> I don't remember seeing this here, and not sure how many of you read his
> articles, but:
>
> https://spectrum.ieee.org/bob-lucky-obituary
Thanks for letting us know. I got to meet Robert Lucky when he was at
Bellcore in the mid-1990
Local pickup only.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/265510502961
Bitsavers has the 449 Reference Manual:
http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/cdc/Tom_Hunter_Scans/CDC449_Computer_RM_Oct67.pdf
Weight was 12 pounds.
US $16K, located in Tucson, AZ, USA.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Extraordinary-Transputer-collection-Museum-quality-Unique/323705821205
>From listing:
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Unmatched collection of vintage Transputer based systems includes
2 (TWO) Parsytec X-plorer 16-node "desktop sup
On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 4:18 PM Antonio Carlini via cctalk
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> Dijkstra was a computer scientist not a computer programmer. The two are
> only tangentially related!
It's funny that you say this because Dijkstra explictly calls himself
a programmer in his 1972 ACM Turing Award Lecture:
"I mar
On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 6:20 PM Will Cooke via cctalk
wrote:
> Reading through the April 85 issue of Byte, I came across a reference to
the "S1 Operating System." In Jerry Pournelle's column on pg 361 he talks
about this mysterious OS.
You can find mentionings of 32-bit capable S1 in trade publi
On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 2:01 PM Dave Wade via cctalk
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> Did anyone ever use process accounting? Did they actually bill departments
> (funny money)?
Starting in the 60's, many centralized academic computing centers
(mine included) operated on a cost-recovery basis and had accounting
groups
