On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 12:15 AM Mark Linimon via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> But just imagine what
> the tech world would have looked like with interchangeable cards for
> PCs and Apples.
>
We have that now, and it really doesn't seem to be of all that much benefit.
Side note that has been lost to history.
>From 1987-1990 I worked at Mizar Digital Systems, which built STD bus
boards and VMEbus boards. Its new president who came in in 1988 I think,
Joe Rammunni, decided that the STD bus was a dying technology, and looked
into NuBus. As I understood at the ti
On 5/24/20 8:20 AM, Michael Thompson via cctalk wrote:
George White went from MIT->Computer Automation->Western
Digital->TI->Corollary->Intel. Corollary's cache technology was licensed by
DEC and many others.
So George would have been person connecting MIT WD and TI ..
On 5/24/20 8:34 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
On 5/24/20 8:20 AM, Michael Thompson via cctalk wrote:
Ron Hochsprung(Apple)
Ron was the senior engineer working on the Mac II
with Mike Dewey. With 20/20 hindsight, the DIN connector
should have been on the far end from the I/O fence
on the Ma
On 5/24/20 8:20 AM, Michael Thompson via cctalk wrote:
Ron Hochsprung(Apple)
Ron was the senior engineer working on the Mac II
with Mike Dewey. With 20/20 hindsight, the DIN connector
should have been on the far end from the I/O fence
on the Mac form-factor Nubus.
>
> Date: Sat, 23 May 2020 07:07:52 -0700
> From: Al Kossow
> Subject: Early Nubus history
>
> Did anyone ever do any research into the early history of Nubus, wrt
> Western Digital, TI or Steve Ward/MIT/Numachine?
>
I was a member of the IEEE-1196 committee that wrot
On 5/23/20 7:07 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
Did anyone ever do any research into the early history of Nubus, wrt Western
Digital, TI or Steve Ward/MIT/Numachine?
I was just thinking that it is interesting that WD is credited for inventing
Qbus through the WD16 chipset and Nubus
because
Did anyone ever do any research into the early history of Nubus, wrt Western
Digital, TI or Steve Ward/MIT/Numachine?
